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Belarusian hacktivists claim drone attack on riot police base in Minsk

Dozens 'likely arrested for social media posts' on Belarus shootout

Latvian President Egils Levits says the international community is doing all it can to support the Belarusian people and punish the regime in Minsk following a presidential election in August 2020 that is widely considered to have been fraudulent. But Levits says changing the regime of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka is ultimately up to Belarusians. Levits spoke to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on August 23 on the sidelines of an International Crimean Platform Summit.

Andrey Dmitriev, a challenger to President Alexander Lukashenko in the Aug 9, 2020 election, was among those temporarily detained for interrogation.

In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, U.S. Ambassador Julie Fisher stressed that the United States continues to call for an "inclusive dialogue" inside Belarus that “leads to a new election” under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) “after the unconditional release of all political prisoners.” Fisher was sworn in in December 2020 as the first U.S. envoy to Belarus since 2008, but because of the leadership dispute in Belarus, she has not taken up her post in Minsk. She said the vote count in the August 9, 2020, el...