Early voting gets underway in Belarus's presidential election, which promises to see the extension of President Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year rule. An unprecedented protest movement that rose up against him following the last elections in 2020 was suppressed by force, with many Belarusians were sentenced to long prison terms and hundreds of thousands of others fled the country.
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00:00I'm going to be late for class.
00:30No, I'm going to sleep.
01:01He sets the right order in the country for the right people.
01:07People in the 1920s did not understand much.
01:12Our president showed what is needed in the country, what path we should choose.
01:19And people slowly began to understand it.
01:30I'm still very close to the border, so the navigator even showed that I'm already in Belarus.
01:40Every day I think that I want to go home.
01:44I am very grateful to Poland for helping Belarusians, for providing them with shelter and protection.
01:51But you know, this is how a person is built.
01:53For example, I can't imagine my life without a home.
01:56I'm used to living in Minsk all my life.
01:59There is my home, my first memories, my everything.
02:03Of course, I can't go there now, because it's a prison right away.
02:08But if something changes for the better, I won't even think about it for a second.
02:28We need to get these people out of prison in all possible and impossible ways.
02:34We had an amnesty, 10 women came out.
02:37These are 10 families who were able to celebrate the New Year together.
02:41I say, and I get goosebumps, because this is very important.
02:45This is the life of a person.
02:47And if they are released, the only thing we can do is rejoice.