Kazharski, Aliaksei, Belarus’ new political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building , New Perspectives, Vol. 29, no. 1, 2021, pp. 69-79 Kazharski notes that the mass movement that arose to reject the rigged 2020 election had been interpreted as the creation of a new civil society or even a new political nation. His article focuses on the relevance of the symbolic politics of the movement in creating a new sense of identity.