Hundreds of employees at state news station go on strike over
election result and censorship
On Monday morning, Belarusians watching the news on state television were greeted with an extraordinary sight: an empty studio. It was the latest development in the rapid unravelling of president Alexander Lukashenko’s hold on power in Belarus during the past week, and potentially one of the most significant.
Belarus One, the national channel, has been churning out government propaganda throughout Lukashenko’s quarter-century rule, and at the beginning of last week was painting the
protesters as dangerous provocateurs paid from abroad to disrupt the glorious stability brought by Lukashenko.