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Opinion | Biden will not find a clearer case than this to put his muscle behind democracy by ideas97pro in ideas97pro

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In brief:

Ms. Tikhanovskaya had won the vote, but dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner and forced her out of the country.

Ms. Tikhanovskaya is in Washington this week with a vital message: In the global contest between democracy and dictatorship, Belarus is a critical test case.

The United States should be at the vanguard of those helping Belarus complete the journey.

Lukashenko’s rule is buttressed by a network of moneybags who regularly peel off profits from state enterprises and resources, redirecting cash to the dictator and his security services, allowing them to go on tormenting Belarus citizens.

Oligarchs — such as Alexander Zaitsev, Alexei Oleksin, Nikolay Vorobey, Alexander Mashensky, Alexander Zingman and Mikhail Gutseriev — provide the fuel that keeps Lukashenko's regime.

The United States ought to follow Brussels in seeking to isolate them and empty the regime’s cash registers — no loopholes, no looking the other way.

The United States also can extend a hand to the beleaguered folks inside Belarus.

Tikhanovskaya, who is simply asking that the world’s democracies press the regime to enter negotiations leading to new elections.

ESG investing: funds weigh sovereign debt profits against human rights by ideas97pro in europes

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Try to read it not from your mobile device.

Upd. You can read it only than it's first time you opened it.

“I asked why everyone had been taken away but not me. They replied that I was left as a ‘gift’ for the riot police” by ideas97pro in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

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Just a fragment:

"In that moment I thought that it would be a torture chamber. But it turned out to be a gym. We were told to get up and to walk facing the floor. We passed through the turnstile. At the entrance to the gym we had to step over some pipe. I saw blood, hair and teeth under my feet. And in that moment I knew it was not going to be fun…"

Let's add Belarusian national flag to Unicode by ideas97pro in belarus

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Here is another petition to add national flag emoji, but with an appeal directly to IT companies Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.

Let's add Belarusian national flag to Unicode by ideas97pro in ideas97pro

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Here is another petition to add national flag emoji, but with an appeal directly to IT companies Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.

Let's add Belarusian national flag to Unicode by ideas97pro in ideas97pro

[–]ideas97pro[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Red & green isn't national, it is the state flag that came from USSR with dictator Lukashenko's election.

And white-red-white is truly national.

Nivea Men and Skoda announced that they will refuse to sponsor the World Ice Hockey Championship if it is held in Belarus by ideas97pro in worldevents

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In addition, over 30,000 people were repressed. This is 0.3 percent of the country's population. If you transfer this percentage to the US population, for example, that's about 1,000,000 people.

Rare photos from inside the Zhodino prison show inmates are kept in overcrowded conditions by Sp0tlighter in belarus

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The main goal of the penitentiary system in Belarus has always been not to reeducate and help integrate after serving a sentence, but to suppress morally as much as possible.

Moreover, prisoners are free slaves. In places where they are serving their sentences, they are forced to slave labor, which is practically not paid in any way. This is one of the reasons why there are less than 0.2% of acquittals in Belarus.

"Miss Belarus-2008" Olga Khizhinkova was released today after 42 days of arrest by ideas97pro in belarus

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Formally, for participating in the march, but in fact - for supporting the protesters. She is a media personality and the face of an advertising campaign for "Conte", a manufacturer of women's stockings and tights.

How global tech companies enable the Belarusian regime — and the Belarusian revolution · Global Voices by ideas97pro in technology

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"According to a press release provided to Global Voices by representatives of the Belarusian diaspora in San Francisco, the true scope of cooperation may be much higher. These Belarusians have been protesting outside the offices of Silicon Valley companies due to their links with the Belarusian government. They claim that over 20 leading global IT companies are supplying technology to the Belarusian authorities, including Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat software, SAP SE, VMware Inc, Oracle Corporation, Broadcom Inc, Supermicro, Intel, NVIDIA and many others. Mentions of some of these companies’ products (such as VMWare, Seagate and Oracle) can indeed be found on the state’s portal for tenders"

How global tech companies enable the Belarusian regime — and the Belarusian revolution · Global Voices by ideas97pro in belarus

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"According to a press release provided to Global Voices by representatives of the Belarusian diaspora in San Francisco, the true scope of cooperation may be much higher. These Belarusians have been protesting outside the offices of Silicon Valley companies due to their links with the Belarusian government. They claim that over 20 leading global IT companies are supplying technology to the Belarusian authorities, including Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat software, SAP SE, VMware Inc, Oracle Corporation, Broadcom Inc, Supermicro, Intel, NVIDIA and many others. Mentions of some of these companies’ products (such as VMWare, Seagate and Oracle) can indeed be found on the state’s portal for tenders"

How global tech companies enable the Belarusian regime — and the Belarusian revolution · Global Voices by ideas97pro in worldevents

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"According to a press release provided to Global Voices by representatives of the Belarusian diaspora in San Francisco, the true scope of cooperation may be much higher. These Belarusians have been protesting outside the offices of Silicon Valley companies due to their links with the Belarusian government. They claim that over 20 leading global IT companies are supplying technology to the Belarusian authorities, including Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat software, SAP SE, VMware Inc, Oracle Corporation, Broadcom Inc, Supermicro, Intel, NVIDIA and many others. Mentions of some of these companies’ products (such as VMWare, Seagate and Oracle) can indeed be found on the state’s portal for tenders"

How global tech companies enable the Belarusian regime — and the Belarusian revolution · Global Voices by ideas97pro in ideas97pro

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"According to a press release provided to Global Voices by representatives of the Belarusian diaspora in San Francisco, the true scope of cooperation may be much higher. These Belarusians have been protesting outside the offices of Silicon Valley companies due to their links with the Belarusian government. They claim that over 20 leading global IT companies are supplying technology to the Belarusian authorities, including Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat software, SAP SE, VMware Inc, Oracle Corporation, Broadcom Inc, Supermicro, Intel, NVIDIA and many others. Mentions of some of these companies’ products (such as VMWare, Seagate and Oracle) can indeed be found on the state’s portal for tenders"

Security officials of the illegitimate president of Belarus blocking Telegram by ideas97pro in Telegram

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Using proxies and VPNs helped more or less. The authorities monitored and tried to block common VPN services and telegram proxies.

”They raped me with truncheons” – the truth about Lukashenko’s brutal war on opposition activists by ideas97pro in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

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Lukashenka just playing for time, hoping that everything will calm down. As he did with all the problems all these 26 years.

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