Minsk
Every night, the same ritual.
At 9 p.m. sharp, the lights in the Novaya Baravaya apartments go out.
Sveta points her nose to the window.
In the twilight, dozens of neighborhood residents do as she does.
And together they start to shout, to answer each other from one building to another, from one courtyard to another, "Jivyé Belarus!"
("
Long live Belarus
").
Their rallying song is thus chanted for a few minutes.
From the street, the polyphonic spectacle is striking.
On this frosty February evening, it is the 34th night in a row that they meet.
"
The regime would like us to be silent once and for all, but we no longer want to remain silent
," says Sveta.
So from our windows and balconies, we scream our fed up.
The 36-year-old young woman, dressed in European style, short hair, works in the Belarusian sector of a large European agribusiness group.
Modern, it represents the typical electorate of this peripheral district
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