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Protests Belarus 2020: Video Database

Protests 2020

Version 1.1, published: Oct. 2, 2025.

Anastasia Stoll


Main category: Protests
Curated by: Jan Matti Dollbaum
Additional categories: Miscellaneous
Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (2025): Protests Belarus 2020: Video Database – Protests 2020, v. 1.1, Discuss Data, https://doi.org/10.48320/E0B46C15-54A7-4057-8A75-3CDC7F810D2B

Description

The collection “Protests Belarus 2020: Video Database” is part of a larger and ongoing collection of videos on protest events in the post-Soviet region. It contains a database describing 101 videos (mp4) of protests in Belarus in the second half of 2020 (mainly Minsk area) triggered by the repeated election of Lukashenko and the treatment of the opposition during the presidential elections. We compiled the material in September 2020. All data is processed in an MS Excel database with metadata.
For these kind of collections on protest events we take into account all videos that are 1) event related AND show actions of this event, 2) fully accessible, 3) we can find with our search words during a particular period. We strictly aim at a systematic and unbiased selection and organized precessing of protest-related videos. We identify particular event-related search words or phrases after intense research on the event. According to the snowball principle, we then start the search of videos and try to describe as much relevant content as possible. However, we cannot guarantee the completeness of protest videos on the particular event. We search the videos and include them into the collection until a particular degree of saturation has been reached.
The videos have been posted mainly by the participants of the events. Therefore, the material is only an extract and biased by the perspective of the single creator.
Due to data privacy regulations and copyright restrictions, we are only allowed to give access to the database of the collected video files including the hyperlinks with its metadata and not to the videos themselves. YouTube’s user guidelines do not allow us to store copies of the video collection described above.

Countries

Belarus

Keywords

Protests Belarus 2020

Language of data

Belarusian English Russian

Disciplines

Comparative Politics Political Science

Methods of data collection

Keyword Search Snow Ball Search Systematic Collection Of Videos

Methods of data analysis

Raw Data Raw Data For Analysis

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