Belarussian policemen blocking the sidewalk in central Minsk during a 1,000-member protest late Wednesday. MINSK — Up to 1,000 people turned out in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, on Wednesday in a rare protest against economic hardship. Police sealed off Minsk’s Oktyabrskaya Square close to President Alexander Lukashenko’s main administration building, but several hundred people amassed in a largely silent protest in nearby streets […]