Death threats and arrests: Belarus opposition media struggles at home and abroad


FILE PHOTO: Warsaw-based Belarusian blogger Stsiapan Putsila speaks during an interview at NEXTA office in Warsaw, Poland May 24, 2021. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - In an elegant apartment building in central Warsaw flying a red and white flag from its first floor balcony, a symbol of the Belarusian opposition, remnants of the anti-government media in Belarus are shrugging off a new wave of death threats.

Less than a year ago, Roman Protasevich, a 26-year-old blogger and opponent of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, was sitting in the same office helping live stream anti-government protests around 300 miles (480 km) to the east which he hoped would topple Lukashenko.

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