They were shocked by how blatantly the elections were rigged and by how much violence was applied afterwards,” said Mikado.Īs the protests gathered steam, internet outages hit Belarus over several days, disrupting the flow of messages, news and videos shared on social media by the demonstrators. “Everyone in the IT community, all Belarusians inside the country and outside the country were shocked.

Stories of tortured detainees and the sight of plainclothes officers grabbing protesters off the street made working life difficult for the Minsk employees of the California-based software-maker PandaDoc, its chief executive Mikita Mikado said. The staff of international IT companies have joined mass protests and are threatening to quit Belarus after the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko on August 9 that his opponents say was rigged. The sector could become a casualty of weeks of violent political crisis in the east European country, putting at risk a source of foreign income that is worth 5% of exports.

To match Insight BELARUS-TECH/ REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Logo of Hi-Tech Park Belarus is seen on a wall at its office in Minsk, Belarus March 17, 2016.

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