The Belarus protests have quickly been dubbed a ‘Telegram revolution’ by commentators.
In a research-based piece for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog, Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University), Aliaksandr Herasimenka (University of Oxford), Ola Onuch (University of Manchester) and Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University) explain why this framing misses the bigger picture of mobilisation in Belarus.
