Belarusian nationalism refers to the belief that Belarusians should constitute an independent nation. Belarusian nationalism began emerging in the mid-19th century, during the January Uprising against
The extent to which Tadeusz Kościuszko, regarded as a national hero in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and the United States, can be regarded as Belarusian has been debated since 1991.
Konstanty Kalinowski (Belarusian: Кастусь Каліноўскі, romanized: Kastuś Kalinoŭski), one of the leaders of the ill-fated January Uprising, was an early Belarusian nationalist leader
Branislaw Tarashkyevich, a supporter of Protestant religious nationalism and socialism
Fabijan Akinčyc [be], leader of the Belarusian National Socialist Party [be]
The Belarusian opposition consists of groups and individuals in Belarus seeking to challenge, from 1988 to 1991, the authorities of Soviet Belarus, and since 1995, the leader of the country Alexander
Zianon Pazniak, leader of the Belarusian Popular Front, the main anti-communist and anti-Lukashenko movement from 1988 to 1996.
Protests at October Square in Minsk, 19 March 2006
Protests in Minsk 16 August 2020
Belarusian opposition government-in-exile leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in 2024.