{"id":156682,"date":"2020-08-16T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/16\/tens-of-thousands-gather-in-minsk-for-biggest-protest-in-belarus-history\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T13:49:58","slug":"tens-of-thousands-gather-in-minsk-for-biggest-protest-in-belarus-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156682","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands gather in Minsk for biggest protest in Belarus history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Lukashenko claims Vladimir Putin has offered him \u2018comprehensive help\u2019 Tens of thousands of Belarusians have gathered in Minsk for the biggest protest in the country\u2019s history, as an extraordinary week of rising sentiment comes to a close.Seven days after the country\u2019s authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, claimed to have secured 80% of the vote in a presidential election, his legitimacy is in tatters and his regime faces its biggest crisis since he came to power 26 years ago. The mood at Sunday\u2019s rally was stoked further by egregious police violence against thousands of protesters earlier in the week. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/belarus-prepares-for-biggest-protest-yet-after-week-of-anger\" target=\"_blank\">Tens of thousands gather in Minsk for biggest protest in Belarus history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Lukashenko claims Vladimir Putin has offered him \u2018comprehensive help\u2019 Tens of thousands of Belarusians have gathered in Minsk for the biggest protest in the country\u2019s history, as an extraordinary week of rising sentiment comes to a close.Seven days after the country\u2019s authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, claimed to have secured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}