Belarus wanted to tax its unemployed ‘parasites.’ Then the protests started.

Belarus, run by “Europe's last dictator” Alexander Lukashenko, is one of the most repressive countries in the West. Protests, free speech and civil society are all tightly controlled; those who speak out can be beaten, jailed or even killed. So what happened in February was pretty remarkable. Thousands of people took to the streets in the capital, Minsk, and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/10/belarus-wanted-to-tax-its-unemployed-as-parasites-then-the-protests-started/