Opposition’s political agenda comes closer with social and economic expectations of population

For twelve days civic activists protected Kurapaty sight from the construction of a business centre. The Belarusian authorities de facto refused to escalate the confrontation with the opposition, whose claims to abandon the construction and restore the legal protection of Kurapaty were supported by the locals. Despite the support from the security forces, the private developer decided not to involve in the conflict between the authorities and the protesters and abandoned the construction plans. Recently, the threshold of fear of open protests in Belarusian society has decreased and opposition activists and ordinary citizens often mutually supported one another. Apparently, the political and ideological agenda of the opposition is beginning to respond to social and economic expectations of the people, whose latent discontent with the state policies is transforming into open protests on the national and local scale.