Riots erupted in Belarus on election night as a crowd of thousands protested the apparent victory of “Europe’s last dictator,” Alexander Lukashenko, and authorities fired tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and grenades at the crowd. Natalia Vasilyva, The Telegraph’s correspondent on the ground in Minsk, told The Daily Beast, “Things look really bad here; my ex-colleague, an AP

    In spite of police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia having said that they would clear away tent camps set up by anti-government protesters, these remained in place on August 9. Protesters spent a stormy and rainy night in the tent camps, at Eagle Bridge (Orlov Most), and outside Sofia University and near the Presidency and Cabinet buildings, while the

     Belarus’ central election commission said incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was ahead in five regions with around 82 per cent of the vote in a tense election marked by a crackdown on the opposition and widespread protests. A preliminary exit poll gave the longtime authoritarian leader nearly 80 per cent of the vote. Main opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, meanwhile, received

In Belarus, on the evening of August 9, the sites of all the country’s largest media outlets stopped working. As of 22:00 Moscow time, the website of the state agency “Belta”, the largest independent portal TUT.by, as well as such media as “Nasha Niva”, “Online”, “Belorussky Partizan” are not opening. Mediazona notes that Uber and Yandex.Taxi also stopped working in

The Belarusian police detain people who went to a protest rally in the center of Minsk. The Belsat TV channel reports on the clashes between the security forces and demonstrators on Pobediteley Avenue. According to the channel, about two thousand people gathered there. “MBH Media” reports with reference to its correspondent that about five thousand protesters have gathered on Pobediteley Avenue near the “Minsk

A Ukrainian citizen is among the victims of the blast / REUTERS A 32-year-old citizen of Ukraine was killed in a massive explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4. “He was only 32. He was going to get married. Not so long ago he reportedly came to the embassy for voting,” Ukraine’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to

       The appointment of Oleh Tatarov as Deputy Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine is a continuation of the pro-Russian revenge in Ukraine, the non-governmental organization Families of Heavenly Hundred Heroes said. “The appointment to the post of Deputy Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, Zakharchenko’s associate Oleh Tatarov, a man who during the Revolution of Dignity daily