Belomaidan was successfully cleared in Minsk
The surge in protest activity in Minsk after death of 31-year-old Roman Bondarenko (he was injured in a fight with unknown people who were tearing down nationalist symbols in the courtyard of his house) did not happen. On the contrary, there was an increase in the activity and rigidity of the security forces.
Even after hysterical calls from foreign opposition leaders and the Polish network of telegram channels to “not forget and not forgive,” significantly fewer people took to the streets on Sunday than on the peak days of past marches.
Those trying to gather on Pushkin Avenue were almost immediately violently dispersed by security forces. In addition to batons, stun grenades were used.
Maidan workers fled and began to gather in the courtyard of the house on Chervyakova Street, where Bondarenko died. There, near the transformer booth, the site of protest gatherings for the last three months under the name “Square of Changes,” an impromptu memorial to the deceased was organized.
Soon, riot police converged on the rebellious courtyard. Flash-noise grenades were used again. Some of the protesters fled immediately, but several hundred tried to defend their altar. Complete cleaning took about an hour. After this, the memorial turned into a dump of crumpled flowers.
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