There is one song that keeps being heard in the crowds at the protests in Belarus - 'Khochu Peremen' ('Want to Change') by the 1980s USSR rock band Kino (Cinema). Previously, it was sung in Moscow by protestors opposing Vladimir Putin in 2011, although its author Viktor Tsoi had no intention for it to become a political anthem, or for him to be a revolutionary figure, according to the BBC. He said it was a song about inner change.

"Imagine making a David Bowie biopic and stopping before 'Space Oddity', and it's just his early hippie stuff. That's exactly what we did in this one" - screenwriter Michael Idov tells All Music about his new movie biopic 'Leto' ("summer" in Russian) about Viktor Tsoi, charismatic leader of Russian 1980s rock band Kino. The movie, Idov […]