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Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus || By Homoatrox - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
The week of protests has shown that the situation is completely different than the well-known crises of the past: the revolution of Solidarity in Poland, the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian Maidan.
Independent, non-governmental watchdogs are always treated as an enemy by illiberal states and wannabe dictators. Viktor Orban’s Hungary is a classic example, but know a similar danger is growing in Poland.
Photo by Peter Tkac | Demonstration in Bratislava, March 2nd 2018 | Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0
This murder has opened many issues not taken care of for a long time. We should never forget Jan Kuciak’s death. It’s a tragic mark in the history of Slovakia. But it has a potential to change something in the country.