Tag: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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13.08.2020 Belarusians no longer prepared to play along with Lukashenka’s flawed election By not inviting international election observers, Lukashenka made an early statement that he would try to hold onto power no matter what. But he might have miscalculated...

ELECTION MONITORS: LUKASHENKA USED EVERY TRICK IN HIS OUTDATED PLAYBOOK TO SURVIVE

10.08.2020 The presidential election in Belarus fell well short of international standards for transparent, free and fair elections, and saw a clear attempt by the authorities to manipulate the outcome, according to independent election monitoring organisations.

LUKASHENKA'S PROPAGANDA MODEL BREAKS IN FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MOVEMENT

10.08.2020 Source: Radio Liberty INTRODUCTION Between 29 April – 19 May (first monitoring period) and 3 – 23 June 2020 (second monitoring period), MEMO 98, a Slovak non-profit specialist media-monitoring organization, in cooperation with the Eurasian...

AN ANALOG CAMPAIGN IN A DIGITAL AGE: LUKASHENKA FALTERS IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

03.08.2020 President Lukashenko has tried to play down the upcoming election as an unnecessary distraction from business as usual, but an active social media movement has shown the public is no longer prepared to go along with an alternate reality, according to a new...