Our goal at this stage was not aiming for records. The main thing was to submit signatures of the highest quality, pass registration, and gain access to the elections.
Belarus would open its doors to Europe. This would give a powerful boost to tourism in the regions, breathe life into small and medium-sized towns, and create new opportunities for trade, entrepreneurship, and investment.
People wanted to listen — about the future of Belarus. About a country we could build together— where power exists not for one man, but for the people.
Belarus will awaken. And in that moment, when it once again needs not miles of empty words, but people — honest, strong, and with inner resolve — it will call upon them.
Say what you will about Lukashenko — mock his education, expose the depth of corruption and nepotism that flourished under his rule... Yet one thing cannot be denied: his political instinct.
Once Viktor Babariko was arrested and Sergei Tikhanouski imprisoned, everything changed. What had been a campaign of many voices suddenly narrowed to one — mine.
When thousands of people line up not for rations, but out of conscience — it is no longer just a queue. It is a form of civil resistance, even if disguised as a signature collection process.
Without honest memory, there can be no real change. If we allow the truth of what happened to be erased, Belarusians will once again be forced to relive the same pain, the same lies, the same betrayals, the same crimes, the s...
