In our factory the managers say if you want to go on working, you’d better vote for Lukashenko. It’s the same dictatorship we had in Soviet times.

This is absurd and nothing more than the agony of people trying to cling to power. Thousands of people will take to the streets because they cannot be denied a right to choose.

They are taking me to the police station. They are no doubt going to lock me up on a spurious pretext like the others.

If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.