eric: not so long ago, maria pugachjova never protested. n she goes to work or meets friends. maria: people just still live in this reality, and they have no chance not to talk about it because every day something happens. this is my life, then. eric: whenever she can she joins women's marches, lukashenko labeling them prostitutes and alcoholics. maria: it's already week number 13, if i'm not mistaken, so it's unbelievable how people are still believing that we will win soon, 'cause the protests never lasted that long in belarus. eric: but often it's a battle just to get to a protest. [maria yelling in foreign language] eric: police lock down entire neighborhoods to stop them marching. maria: as you can hear, everyone is screaming "shame, shame, shame." [speaking foreign language] so, they're not letting us join each other, but you can see that people are making noise. so, we're everywhere. everywhere. [horns honking] eric: maria's group retreats to a friend's apartment to wait out the lockdown. maria: so, maybe we can see what is happening

maria pugachjova: i've never been scared since the 9th of

maria pugachjova: i've never been scared since the 9th of