{"id":44883,"date":"2020-10-05T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/?p=44883"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:39:34","slug":"by-2020-10-05-the-guardian-belarus-personal-stories-from-a-country-in-turmoil-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/by-2020-10-05-the-guardian-belarus-personal-stories-from-a-country-in-turmoil-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"BY 2020.10.05 Belarus, A Country in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andrei-Lemeshonok-and-Alexander-Lukashenko-2023.01.07-v0.webp\" alt=\"Andrei Lemeshonok and Alexander Lukashenko at St. Elisabeth Convent\" class=\"wp-image-55553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andrei-Lemeshonok-and-Alexander-Lukashenko-2023.01.07-v0.webp 800w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andrei-Lemeshonok-and-Alexander-Lukashenko-2023.01.07-v0-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andrei-Lemeshonok-and-Alexander-Lukashenko-2023.01.07-v0-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andrei-Lemeshonok-and-Alexander-Lukashenko-2023.01.07-v0-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rigged Elections<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protests Erupted Across Belarus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Belarus &#8211; Personal Stories from a Country in Turmoil<\/strong>,<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNT2uAayxos?si=s-8eDapQxCh2MPHR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Belarus, a country in turmoil: Documentary, The Guardian<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mass protests erupted across Belarus following the widely disputed election that put President Alexander Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers have documented personal stories of those caught up in the political turmoil.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maksim Shved was arrested, imprisoned, and then released as the protests around him swelled. Ekaterina Markavets observes the psychological burden of her fellow citizens \u2013 she worked with professional psychologists who set up a volunteer support service for people affected by current events. Andrei Kutsila follows a celebrated Belarusian broadcast journalist who worked for state TV for nearly 40 years and who is now in the <em>hospital recovering from injuries sustained at a protest. <\/em><strong><em>All three filmmakers wonder what the future holds for their country and fellow citizens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/oct\/05\/belarus-personal-stories-from-a-country-in-turmoil-documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/oct\/05\/belarus-personal-stories-from-a-country-in-turmoil-documentary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rigged Elections Protests Erupted Across Belarus Belarus &#8211; Personal Stories from a Country in Turmoil, Belarus, a country in turmoil: Documentary, The Guardian Mass protests erupted across Belarus following the widely disputed election that put President Alexander Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers have documented personal stories of those caught up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}