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The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [71] [72] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
In January, a Belarusian was arrested after an arson attack against a T-72 tank at Ĺciapianka railway station [] in Minsk. [5] The Cyber Partisans conducted a campaign of cyberattacks on the regime's internet infrastructure in mid-2021, including the release of personal information of thousands of regime officials, police, military, and regime propagandists. [6]
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were [1] a series of political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [2] [3] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
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Cyber Partisans consists of a group of Belarusian IT workers who live abroad. [1] In an August 2021 interview to Bloomberg, hackers shared some details about themselves: they are 15 people, none of whom are professional hackers; of them, only 3 or 4 perform the hacks, others deal with the analysis of obtained data; and some group members were penetration testers before joining the group.
The Jeans Revolution was a term used by the opposition in Belarus and its supporters to describe their effort and aspirations [9] on democratic changes in Belarus, in the period leading up to the 2006 presidential election.
According to the statistics of the channel "YouTube of Belarus", NEXTA Live is the largest independent Belarusian YouTube channel, if one does not take into account the state-owned media channels. [7] Nexta faces pressure from Belarusian authorities. Since October 2020, Nexta and its logo are considered extremist content in Belarus.
[1] [2] Belarus is an authoritarian state, and in May 2011 presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was sentenced to five years in prison for taking part in the 2010 presidential election. Lukashenko claimed he won with almost 80% of the vote. [3]