Belarus President Lukashenko wins sixth term by landslide; opposition ready for ‘long-term’ protests

MOSCOW — Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide reelection according to preliminary results announced Monday that have provoked protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging.

In Minsk, images and video posted to social media Sunday night showed heavily armored riot police using water cannons, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators after a Central Election Committee official told state television that initial results showed Lukashenko claiming more than 80 percent of the vote.His main opposition rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, received about 10 percent, according to further preliminary results released Monday morning.

In one video, a police prisoner van appeared to run into a demonstrator in Minsk. Multiple human rights groups said Monday that the person later died of head wounds and that dozens of others were hospitalized.Protests in Gomel and Vitebsk also turned violent, but in some smaller cities, rallies were peaceful, and authorities did not move to disperse them.

Lukashenko initially played down the coronavirus as “psychosis,” refused to enforce sanitary restrictions such as nonessential business closures and canceling mass events, and then later admitted that he had contracted the coronavirus but endured it “on his feet.” There has been speculation about his health because he has been spotted with a catheter in his arm this month.

Delete this

'Wins...by landslide' You sure about that?

That is a lie.

You know better than this.

Christ Wash Po! Do I have to end my subscription to you too? The NY Times lost me, but I’m (we’re) counting on you to speak truth. Cuz this is a lie.

Do your job. What you scared of?

Are you Fucking out your mind or you’ve got suitcase full of cash flown from Minsk to make such a FAKE news Headline?!

Can’t believe I pay a subscription for this

The fuck

Remember this headline when journalists from the leading corporate outlets try to portray themselves as gallant champions of truth and democracy in the Age of Trump.

yo PostBaron, a very quick fix for this misleading tweet: Original: Belarus Lukashenko wins sixth term by landslide, opposition ready for 'long term' protests Corrected: Belarus Lukashenko “wins” sixth term by landslide, opposition ready for long term protests

Rigged by a dictator your headline should read

If you fix an election you can't claim that ad a 'win'

Are you ohueli tam?

you must be kidding

Wrong headline

Bootlicker. Can't report the widespread election fraud. Lick that boot, plug.

What a shame! You should write - win on his opinion, and that’s nothing to do with reality!

So the nytimes is writing your tweets now? You should delete this and just cut and paste the headline.

Please report properly. He did not win, he self elected.

Maybe you should start keeping track of your lies. OR Are you practicing for trump’s re-election? Much the same issue and result.

The elections in Belarus were massively rigged, please account for that. 'Democracy Dies in Darkness'.

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