⁍ More than 100,000 people marched through Minsk on Sunday on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.

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⁍ The eastern European country was plunged into turmoil following a presidential election last month that Lukashenko says he won by a landslide.

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⁍ In power for 26 years, the former Soviet collective farm manager has shown scant inclination to resign.

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– Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belarus’ capital of Minsk for the sixth weekend in a row to demand the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for 26 years. The New York Times reports that the protests were the biggest in the country’s post-Soviet history, with opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya leading the way with 30,000 supporters. Reuters reports that at least 80 people were detained across the country on Sunday, according to the Russian news agency TASS. The European Union has threatened to impose sanctions on the country for alleged human rights abuses, but is likely to miss its own Monday deadline for action. Lukashenko says he won last month’s election by a landslide, but the opposition says the vote was rigged and accuses him of embezzling billions of dollars, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, the personal data of 1,000 police officers was leaked by hackers in retaliation for the government’s crackdown on protesters. “As the arrests continue, we will continue to publish data on a massive scale,” says a statement from the opposition news channel Nexta Live on the messaging app Telegram. “No one will remain anonymous even under a balaclava.” Metro stations were closed in Minsk and the mobile internet disrupted for several hours on Saturday. The government said 390 women were detained for taking part in a protest on Saturday. Most have been released. Minsk reacted angrily on Saturday to reports that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leading opposition candidate in last month’s election.