Belarus Car Owners Flood Into Downtown Minsk to Protest New Tax
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Belarus drivers streamed into downtown Minsk, their honking column filling the capital’s main thoroughfare as a planned tax sparked the nation’s first public protest since 2011.
Motorists organized on social network websites to slow traffic on the eight-lane Nezavisimosti Avenue to a crawl as hundreds cheered from sidewalks about 200 meters (670 feet) from President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s residence. Riot police later forced pedestrians into a nearby underground passage.