June 18 will go down in the history of the election campaigns of Belarus as the next step of the usurpation of power. Yesterday, Viktor Babariko, a presidential candidate, was detained, who in a few days was able to collect a record initiative group, and in the last month-a record number of signatures for an alternative candidate. He and his son Eduard are in the KGB pre-trial detention center. And now more about what happened.
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The former head of "Belgazprombank" Viktor Babariko was one of the strongest rivals of President Alexander Lukashenko in the current elections. But the CEC did not register him as a candidate without legal grounds, despite the arrest. Now he is in the KGB pre-trial detention center and no evidence of his guilt has yet been presented, as promised by Lukashenko immediately after his arrest in July 2020