Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia has agreed to offer security assistance if needed as post-election protests grow in the country
Protesters raise their mobile phones with flashlights during a symbolic minute of silence near the State TV and radio company in central Minsk, Belarus on August 15, 2020.
Saturday was the seventh consecutive day of large protests against the results of the country's August 9 presidential election in which election officials claimed the 65-year-old Lukashenko won a sixth term in a landslide. Some male protesters pulled off their shirts to show bruises they said came from police beatings. Others carried pictures of loved ones beaten so badly they could not attend the rally.
Belarusian police said he died when an explosive device he intended to throw at police blew up in his hand. Several police are seen nearby and some walk over to where Taraikovsky is lying on the street and stand around him. Earlier, the 65-year-old Lukashenko on Saturday rejected suggestions that foreign mediators become involved in trying to resolve the country’s political crisis.
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