Blogging the Belorus Elections
As the BBC reports that thousands of Belarussian opposition supporters have gathered in the central square in Minsk to protest the presidential elections, it’s worth keeping an eye out on Global Voices’ Belorus page summarizing and linking to Belorussian blogs. In particular, GV reports that Andrei Khrapavitski is blogging events as they unfold.
Interestingly, I met a young photographer, Andrei Liankevich, from the Belorussian opposition press last year when he was studying at the Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan. Standards of living there sound a lot higher than in Armenia with GNI per capita standing at $2,120 as opposed to $1,120 here, but politically, the situation sounds terrible.
As probably everyone knows, Lukashenko has been described as the last dictator in Europe. Even so, the BBC says that Lukashenko has “genuine popular support,” but to be honest, I don’t know much about the situation in the country.