We could never have imagined we would be working hand-in-hand with real-life partisans and have a real shot.” The MVD hack: Mapping Europe’s last dictatorship “We could never have imagined we would grow so much and manage to pull off so many little stabs at the regime (some are not so little). “Each of us individually decided to do something about it. “We were all shocked by what happened in August 2020,” they said. The CP activist told Euronews that their own Suprativ alliance was “one big family” – albeit one thrown together by the cruellest of circumstances. Online platform Voice is engaged in a digital re-count of the 2020 election vote and has so far independently verified more than 1.6 million votes in a bid to show the officially-stated outcome was false.Īll these initiatives and scores more were entirely self-generated, without state support or financing. Nexta and Belarus of the Brain editor-in-chief Roman Protasevich was arrested after his flight to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk earlier this year AP Photo Meanwhile, campaigns like BY_help and the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation raised funds to support those injured, fined or otherwise targeted during the protests. On September 2, authorities raided its Minsk offices and arrested five staff members. One start-up, PandaDoc, crowdfunded cash to help law enforcement officers pay the heavy fines required to quit their jobs. Telegram channels like the Warsaw-based Nexta, founded by 22-year-old dissident blogger Stsiapan Putsila, and Belarus of the Brain kept people informed during those turbulent days by sharing on-the-ground photos and videos of the carnage going on inside the country.Ī crowdsourced map of strikes,, showed would-be demonstrators where to go, while the Telegram channel Okretsina Lists kept track of those detained.Ī constellation of other Belarusian platforms also kept the momentum going.
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Protesters used firewall-circumventing software on their phones to get around an internet blackout imposed by Lukashenko on election day, then used social media to organise. In turn, Suprativ forms part of a vast ecosystem of Belarusian digital activism that fomented for years and was turbo-charged last summer. The picture CP says is Alexander Lukashenko's passport photo Belarusian Cyber Partisans Its manifesto lists three goals: “preservation of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Belarus”, overthrowing the Lukashenko regime, and aiding the country in a stable return to “democratic principles of governance and rule of law”. The alliance does not recognise Lukashenko as the legitimate ruler of Belarus. Just three to four are actual hackers, and none are professionals – they learned on the go over the past 12 months.ĬP is one member of a bigger consortium of cyberwarriors known as Suprativ, which was formed on September 18, 2020, and includes two other groups, partly made up of ex-regime operatives, called Flying Storks and The People’s Self-Defense Brigade.
The brains, in this case, belong to a group of around 15 Belarusian citizens and activists, all IT specialists, who joined forces after the protests began last August. The regime is bleeding brains they can't make up for.” Belarus’s digitised revolution IT professionals were forced to leave Belarus in the thousands.
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