2020 Belarusian protests facts for kids

The 2020 Belarusian protests, nicknamed the Slipper Revolution, and the Anti-Cockroach Revolution are a series of street protests against Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko. They began on 24 March 2020.

The protests are part of the Belarusian democracy movement. They are upset over the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, in which Lukashenko was controversially re-elected. Many believed the election was rigged and unfair.

Support from Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Alexander Lukashenko hold on, and the security forces started attacking people from the opposite side.

Images for kids

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  The nickname "cockroach" for Lukashenko was adopted from Korney Chukovsky's 1921 children's poem Tarakanishche (The Monster Cockroach).

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  Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (left) alongside a crowd of supporters in Minsk on 30 July

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  First press conference of the Coordination Council on 18 August 2020

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  Rally in memory of Alexander Taraikovsky on 15 August

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  Protesters waving the European Union and white-red-white flags during a rally against Lukashenko, on the 16th August 2020.

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  Heraldic banner of the Pahonia coat of arms

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In Spanish: Protestas en Bielorrusia de 2020-2021 para niños