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| WATCH: Riot police push protesters away as they try to erect barricades in central Minsk | |
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| Riot police have deployed flashbang grenades against protesters, who tried to erect barricades in central Minsk, as thousands of people across Belarus poured into the streets, angry over preliminary presidential election results. | |
| Protesters were pushed away from the Victory Square, the main rally point of activists in central Minsk on Sunday night. | |
| Multiple activists, as well as at least one officer, were reportedly injured in clashes, but health authorities have yet to release any official numbers. | |
| Videos shared online showed lines of police in full riot gear marching on protesters, eventually pushing them across bridge over the Svisloch River. | Videos shared online showed lines of police in full riot gear marching on protesters, eventually pushing them across bridge over the Svisloch River. |
| Police conducted multiple arrests, as standoffs with protesters continue in other parts of the capital. | |
| Lukashenko is forecast to receive a whopping 81.35 percent of the official vote, while the main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is expected to get around 8 percent. Opposition supporters refused to accept the official preliminary results, taking to the streets in Minsk as well as some other cities across the country, including Gomel, Mogilev, and Vitebsk. | |
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