{"id":60616,"date":"2020-09-04T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cop-kicking-granny-is-national-protest-hero-in-belarus\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:38:00","slug":"cop-kicking-granny-is-national-protest-hero-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cop-kicking-granny-is-national-protest-hero-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cop-kicking granny is national protest hero in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cop-kicking granny is national protest hero in Belarus<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 4, 2020 |<\/span> 3:38pm <\/p>\n

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\n A fearless great-granny enjoys cult-hero status in Belarus after viral video showed her kicking the riot cops who snatched away her flag during a protest.<\/p>\n

Now, shouts of \u201cNina! Nina!\u201d follow the white-haired pensioner as she marches in the month-long street demonstrations against Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is the hero of our time,\u201d one young woman protester told BBC News<\/a> of petite protest spitfire Nina Bahinskaya, 73.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been watching you and we want to be like you!\u201d another young woman protester agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe won\u2019t go by himself,\u201d Bahinskaya told the BBC of Lukashenko, a dictator who has refused to step down after claiming a landslide victory in an Aug. 9 presidential election widely seen as fraudulent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a sick man,\u201d the bespectacled granny told the BBC. \u201cHe is a psychopath, controlled by people from Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bahinskaya tangled with cops in late August, during a street protest in the capital city of Minsk.<\/p>\n

She had been marching while waving a giant banner on a pole \u2013the old red and white Belarussian flag.<\/p>\n

The flag is now banned in Belarus, but it has become popular among protesters as an anti-Lukashenko symbol.<\/p>\n

When riot police pulled the flag from her hands, she chased them down.<\/p>\n

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She yelled, punched and kicking at the armed police, even pulling at the body armor of one cop, according to video posted to Twitter<\/a> by Franak Viacorce on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that I kicked this riot policeman was not very good behavior, but on a human level, correct,\u201d she told BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if you are attacked and your things are stolen, you won\u2019t just say \u2018thank you.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, she is in constant demand for selfies among protesters \u2014 though not everyone is a fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou found some half-mad babushka and you\u2019re following her!\u201d the BBC quoted one woman, who recently heckled Bahinskaya and her acolytes from the protest sidelines.<\/p>\n

Bahinskaya, meanwhile, rejects her celebrity status.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t consider myself a special hero,\u201d she told BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the duty of any normal person,\u201d she said of her courage.<\/p>\n

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