The Belarusians, who were still around a hundred thousand this Sunday in the streets of Minsk, the capital, do not seem ready to give up.
They oppose their tenacity to the intransigence of Alexander Lukashenko whose contested re-election, on August 9, set fire to the powder.
But with the massive protest that continues, the Belarusian economy, already fragile, risks the big plunge.
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The first sign of the economic backlash, the collapse of the local currency, the Belarusian ruble, and the scarcity of euros and dollars.
In banks and exchange counters, savers are desperate to buy foreign currency to preserve their capital against the Belarusian ruble which is unscrewing.
So much so that people wait until someone comes to deposit foreign money.
An increasingly rare case.
“All market players, including the population, businesses and the banks themselves, actively buy currencies,
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