??????? – ??? ??????????????? ??? ????????? ? ?????????? ? ????? ???????? ???????????? ???????? ??? ????????????????? ??????-?? ?????????. ? ?????? ???????? ?????????????? ?????????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ???????? ? ?????????? ????????, ????????? ??????????? ?????????????? ??????????? ?????? ?????????? ? ??????? 2020 ????. ???????? ??????????????? ? ??????????????? ????? ??????. ???????? ????????? ???????????? ???????, ?????????????? ?????? ???????? ??????, ????????? ?????? ??????????? ?????????????, ? ??? ????? ????????, ????????, ?????, ????????, «????????» ? ??. A protest is a communicative act of denial and rejection with the aim to change an existing situation or to prevent a given intention. The focus of the international team of authors is on the mass protests in the Republic of Belarus caused by the official interpretation of the results of the presidential election in August 2020. The protests are examined from a linguistic perspective. Attention is paid to the vocabulary used, the interaction of different linguistic systems, different forms of verbal resistance, including slogans, posters, memes, hashtags, "sayings", etc.

???????? / The Editor ??????? ????? — ?????? ?????????????? ????, ????????? ????????? ?????????? ???????????? ???????????? ????????, ???? ???????? ???????? ???? ? ?????????? (?????), ???????? ? ???????. ????? ??????? ????????? ?????????? ??????? ????????????????? ???????????, ?????? ????????????, ?????????????????, ?????????, ????????? ?????, ??????? ?????????? ??????. Holger Kusse is a linguist and Slavist, Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, member of the German Academy of Science and Literature (Mainz). His research interests include cultural linguistics, argumentation theory, pragmalinguistics, semantics, philosophy of language, history of Slavic languages.