Theater staff brandish their resignation letters to Yuri Bondar, Belarusian Minister of Culture, not in the picture, in the Janka Kupala National Theater in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Several dozen people gathered in front of the theater to support the troupe that handed in their notice after the theater's director, Pavel Latushko, was fired. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
August 18, 2020
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