Riot police in Balaclavas, Belarus harshly detained some 250 demonstrators as tens of thousands of people gathered for an opposition protest on the eve of talks between President Alexander Lukashenko and his main ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Masked agents in uniform and plain clothes snatched people from the streets as they assembled for the “March of Heroes” demonstration, often pushing or punching them, a video posted on the Belarusian news site Tut.by showed.
“Some 250 people were detained in various districts of the capital,” the interior ministry said in a
