Belarusians awaken in protest against polluting factories
udf.byOn 14 April almost 1,000 people in Brest protested against the construction of a battery factory. During the past year similar protests took place in Astravets, Brest, and Svetlahorsk; all against environmentally-harmful enterprises threatening neighbourhoods with dangerous factory emissions.
However, as with other non-political protests, the authorities reacted in all of these cases with either silence or detentions. Low production costs in Belarus attract foreign investors and potentially create new jobs.