Official results gave long term President Alexander Lukashenko yet another landslide victory.

The protests that followed ended in repression and arrests.

Now, six months later, with the pandemic still raging and one of the coldest winters in recent years, protests are still going on in Belarus, but in a rather different way.

It's nine PM here in Minsk, and that means, at least in this part of town, that it's time for many of the locals to go out and protest out on their balconies something they do here night after night, waving flags, chanting, using the torture on the mobile phones, really making their presence felt.

I've heard all kinds of chance here from my kitchen window.

Anything from will come out and protest every night.

Long live Belarus, Lukashenko behind bars.

Basically, these are the same chance that we've heard since the summer since those first protests after that rigged election in early August 2, there's one major difference.

Back then, the protesters had hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets every Sunday, right in the center of Minsk, making their presence felt.

Now the government crackdown means that the only place people feel some kind of safety is in their own neighborhoods, walking around their buildings and coming out onto their balconies.

Right now, it seems like Alexander Lukashenko, whose bean in office for more than a quarter of a century is in no hurry to talk to the opposition in no hurry to engage on, has basically jailed and exiled away.

His main opponents on seems to be betting that if he carries on like that, these protests will fizzle out.

If the people in this part of town or anything to go by, they definitely don't want to prove him right, if they could stay out of jail, that is because even coming out to produce on your own balcony, that is something that is far from safe in Minsk right now.

The courts here handing out sentences anything from a month to several years, toe people who take part in this kind of protest activity.

This really is a situation where making your voice felt coming out.