{"id":2155,"date":"2020-08-15T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:01:56","slug":"elena-korosteleva-discusses-a-changing-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/15\/elena-korosteleva-discusses-a-changing-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Korosteleva discusses &#8220;A changing Belarus?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 9 August election, is Belarus finally ready for a change? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/517\/korosteleva-elena\">Elena Korosteleva<\/a> shares her first-hand experiences in Minsk and discusses the possibilities in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Great Meeting<\/em>\u00a0which took place on 30 July in Minsk, attracting over 60,000 people, seems to have challenged what once seemed pre-ordained. The gathering was called by the three remarkable women depicted above \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/31\/897814403\/a-37-year-old-opposition-candidate-challenges-the-longtime-leader-of-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Svetlana Tikhanovskaya<\/a>, a presidential hopeful, who joined forces with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.tut.by\/society\/693402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Maria Kolesnikova<\/a>, campaign manager of the arrested candidate, former banker Victor Babariko, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/veronica-tsepkalo-961b1a82\/?originalSubdomain=by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Veranika Tsepkalo<\/a>, the wife of the barred businessman Valeriy Tsepkalo.<\/p>\n<p>Their rise to politics has been accidental, and yet their appeal has been astounding. On the 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of July, the sun was shining uncompromisingly, gathering an unprecedented crowd of peaceful protesters, allegedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/07\/31\/belarus-presidential-elections-meet-the-three-women-teaming-up-to-take-on-europe-s-last-di\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">for the first time of that size in the modern history<\/a>\u00a0of Belarus, to celebrate people\u2019s will for change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dahrendorf-forum.eu\/a-changing-belarus-the-country-in-the-eye-of-the-storm\/\">https:\/\/www.dahrendorf-forum.eu\/a-changing-belarus-the-country-in-the-eye-of-the-storm\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 9 August election, is Belarus finally ready for a change? Elena Korosteleva shares her first-hand experiences in Minsk and discusses the possibilities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/15\/elena-korosteleva-discusses-a-changing-belarus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131001,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}