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It was a similar mass mobilisation of ordinary people in cities and towns across Ukraine (including Donbas and Crimea) in the winter of 2013/14 that turned Kyiv's protest on the Maidan into a social and political revolution. https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1286614537106587648?s=19
It's scarier for him than that. Provincial police forces are a crucial reserve which can be used (and were on Maidan) to crush dissent in the capital. If protests break out in the towns and villages Lukashenko's control over Minsk suddenly becomes fragile. https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1286615870119305218?s=19
This blatantly fradulent result will induce a showdown between the opposition movement and the regime in Minsk. That the army has been deployed is a sign of weakness - policing resources in the rest of the country have been stretched to breaking point. https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1292508118182703105?s=19
All those soldiers and titushki bussed into Minsk from the rest of Belarus? They can't now suppress the protests which are kicking off in the rest of Belarus. https://twitter.com/ilyapahomov/status/1292544167877500930?s=09
Zhodino, 50km from Minsk, where protestors are able to gather in crowds https://twitter.com/ilyapahomov/status/1292541231487164420?s=09
Brest, one of the largest cities in Belarus https://twitter.com/buch10_04/status/1292540590547181569?s=19
Molodechno, a smaller city https://twitter.com/ilyapahomov/status/1292553208100016135?s=19
Gigantic security presence in Minsk right now. The rest of Belarus must have been emptied of police personnel https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1292563180221337602
Trying to keep it to one example of protests per city at the moment, but this is Gomel (I guess the Birmingham of Belarus?) https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1292564951547207683
All the stuff I've seen tonight has been from large-ish urban areas, but this political awakening has reached into the Belarusian village too https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1287414421401358336
