The article examines the contradictions between the opposition and the acting authorities in Belarus concerning the further development of national statehood. The study of primary sources stress the main claims and demands of the opposition to the Belarusian ruling regime and provide a brief outline of their formation and applicability in the real politics. The article is also focused on an attempt to structure the common ideological concepts concerning the state development, the role of national language and the politics of memory, shared by the diverse groups of Belarusian opposition. As the analysis has shown, they mostly occurred to be outdated and irrelevant to reality. Because of this, the strategies of the future, considered by the opposition as an alternative to the current development of Belarus, does not seem to be realistic.