Shortly after the announcement of a formal survey giving the winner nearly 80 percent of the outgoing president, in power since 1994, critics of the power in Minsk gathered by the thousands in different places, despite warnings from the authorities, who had deployed a large anti-riot.

The police said they used "special equipment" to disperse assemblies, including stun grenades, and have made a number of arrests, without specifying the number, the " events in progress ".