https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3e8v3/belarus-cut-off-the-internet-and-tried-to-make-it-look-like-an-accident (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3e8v3/belarus-cut-off-the-internet-and-tried-to-make-it-look-like-an-accident)
https://www.coindesk.com/vpn-usage-surges-as-belarus-remains-offline (https://www.coindesk.com/vpn-usage-surges-as-belarus-remains-offline)
https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-third-night-protests-thousands-detained-/30778635.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-third-night-protests-thousands-detained-/30778635.html)
https://www.rferl.org/a/authoritarian-leaders-are-watching-the-turmoil-in-belarus-closely-so-are-the-people-tiring-of-their-rule-/30778461.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/authoritarian-leaders-are-watching-the-turmoil-in-belarus-closely-so-are-the-people-tiring-of-their-rule-/30778461.html)
?We are Belarusians of the world?. Photos of the second night of protests in Minsk Riot police beat people, citizens erect barricades and line up in a human chain (russian - use google chrome/translate)
https://meduza.io/feature/2020/08/11/barrikady-i-spetsnaz-na-ulitsah-minska-fotografii-vtoroy-nochi-protestov-v-belarusi (https://meduza.io/feature/2020/08/11/barrikady-i-spetsnaz-na-ulitsah-minska-fotografii-vtoroy-nochi-protestov-v-belarusi)
What leaders/elites fail to understand is that a country belongs to it's (orginal) people, not the leaders or elites. To parafrase: The needs of the many goes before the needs of the (happy) few or the one (dictator)
http://www.uawire.org/lukashenko-s-family-flown-to-turkey-amid-mass-protests-in-belarus (http://www.uawire.org/lukashenko-s-family-flown-to-turkey-amid-mass-protests-in-belarus)
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3079968-nine-ukrainians-detained-during-belarus-protests-ukrainian-foreign-ministry.html (https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3079968-nine-ukrainians-detained-during-belarus-protests-ukrainian-foreign-ministry.html)
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/12/bye-bye-bynet (https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/12/bye-bye-bynet)
Bye bye, Bynet. Belarusian officials say foreigners are responsible for the country?s sudden Internet outages, but I.T. experts suspect the government is to blame
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/29/what-were-russian-mercenaries-doing-belarus-wagner-group/?f (https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/29/what-were-russian-mercenaries-doing-belarus-wagner-group/?f)
https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_why_the_eu_now_needs_a_deliberate_belarus_policy?fbcl (https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_why_the_eu_now_needs_a_deliberate_belarus_policy?fbcl)
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/08/why-future-belarus-matters-united-states/167627/ (https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/08/why-future-belarus-matters-united-states/167627/)
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the list for today
http://krantvannederland.nl/discuss/list/2020/13082020.html (http://krantvannederland.nl/discuss/list/2020/13082020.html)