As Ukraine prepares to mark the anniversaries of the beginning of the Orange Revolution on November 22, 2004, and the Euro-Maidan, which was launched on November 23, 2013, and by the beginning of the following year evolved into the Revolution of Dignity, Belarusians on November 16 marked the 100th day of their white-red-white national revolution.
They have revolted against the dictatorship of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who after 26 years in power has once again imprisoned rivals and rigged the August 9 presidential election. The Belarusian people’s resistance has now lasted longer than the 95-day Ukrainian popular insurrection against the kleptocracy of President Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Russian lurch when Ukraine was poised to enter into an Association Agreement with the European Union.