Determining Factors of Election Protests in the Post-Soviet Space

... to have received 6,8 per cent, while Lukashenko reportedly obtained 79,7 per cent of the vote. [2] Reports about voting irregularities immediately appeared and protesters rallied in the capital Minsk, where they were met with a harsh response by the security forces. Since then, the protests have continued every weekend and were often suppressed by the security forces, which, according to available information , have continued. The same can be said of the state apparatus, which has not witnessed large shifts to the opposition, despite ...