Around 1,000 Belorussians took to the streets to protest a plan to allow Russia to set up an air base in the country on Oct. 4.
By Bartek Kozłowiec (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Organizers of the protest said the move would turn the former Soviet republic into a Kremlin “vassal.”