{"id":125683,"date":"2024-02-27T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:40:32","slug":"can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Europe help pro-democracy Belarusians as Lukashenko tightens grip on power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125683\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Alexander Lukashenko has said he will run for re-election as Belarus\u2019s president in 2025, delivering a further blow to the country\u2019s stifled pro-democracy movement. The announcement came over the weekend during parliamentary elections. Described as more of a ritual than a democratic vote, Belarusians could choose between only four parties, all loyal to Lukashenko. The ballot was tightly controlled, international observers were not invited and opposition parties were legally barred from running.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first election in the country since the contentious 2020 presidential vote &#8211; deemed a sham by the West &#8211; that sparked a wave of mass demonstrations and saw a staggering 35,000 protesters arrested. It ushered in a brutal crackdown on dissent by Lukashenko, who has closed hundreds of independent media outlets and silenced his critics by imprisoning them or forcing them into exile.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Lukashenko &#8211; who has once more grown closer to Vladimir Putin &#8211; has also orchestrated a flow of migrants to the EU\u2019s border, hijacked a Ryanair plane travelling between two EU capitals, and allowed the Russian president to use his territory to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has responded with a raft of sanctions in a bid to suffocate Belarus\u2019 economy and put pressure on the Lukashenko regime. But experts tell Euronews that despite the EU\u2019s sanctions and moral backing, Belarus\u2019s opposition is being alienated as Lukashenko continues to cement his authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/02\/26\/can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/02\/26\/can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/can-europe-help-pro-democracy-belarusians-as-lukashenko-tightens-grip-on-power\/\">Can Europe help pro-democracy Belarusians as Lukashenko tightens grip on power?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1992,555,696,13550],"class_list":["post-125683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-belarusian","tag-csr-news-en","tag-europe","tag-lukashenko"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}