All news for 9.08.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX

Alexander Lukashenko receives 79,7% of the votes in the presidential elections in Belarus, his main rival Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - only 6,8%, 9,2% of voters voted against everyone. These are the data of the official state exit poll (conducting alternative exit polls is prohibited in Belarus), reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The survey was conducted at 320 sites across the country. 67,6% answered the question, 32,4% refused to answer. A total of people were surveyed...

The headquarters of the unregistered presidential candidate of Belarus Valery Tsepkalo confirmed today the information that the politician’s wife is in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Tsepkalo himself fled to Russia more eagerly. Information about Veronica’s escape was disseminated by state media, but the opposition denied it. Today her action is justified by the threat of criminal proceedings. Thus, the women’s opposition triumvirate, which had conducted a noisy election campaign, collapsed...

In Khabarovsk over the weekend, traditional rallies of opponents of the authorities took place, which gather after the arrest of ex-governor Sergei Furgal, accused of involvement in the murders. Protests are becoming smaller in number, but angrier - insults are being used against President Vladimir Putin, TV presenters of central TV channels, and the symbols of Belarusian nationalists have also appeared - a white and red flag. Unauthorized protests are taking place in Khabarovsk from 11...

Pyotr Symonenko, the leader of the once popular but defeated Communist Party of Ukraine after Euromaidan, who previously spoke on Russian talk shows, has now come to Minsk to support President Alexander Lukashenko. He criticized journalists who asked the Belarusian leader uncomfortable questions today. “Alexander Grigorievich, send them to Ukraine for a couple of days, and everything will be clear there. For a few days…

The film crew of the liberal Russian TV channel Dozhd (correspondents Vladimir Ramensky, Vasily Polonsky and cameraman Nikolai Antipov) were detained today in Minsk. This was reported on the official website of Dozhd, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. People in civilian clothes and masks laid the journalists on the asphalt, tied them up, and then took them away in an unknown direction. The head of the headquarters of the unregistered presidential candidate Viktor Babariko,...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power during the Maidan, is pursuing an openly unfriendly policy, appointing young and incompetent Soros to all important positions, and expelling professionals focused on friendship with Russia from structures. Political scientist Semyon Bagdasarov stated this on the YouTube channel of Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are a lot of people surrounded by Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan...

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine canceled the holding of local elections on October 25, 2020 in some Kyiv-controlled territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Elections were canceled in ten united territorial communities of the Donetsk region and in eight of the Lugansk region. The official pretext is the location of settlements near the front line. In total, more than 500 thousand people live here. “If there is an agreement...

The Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv restricts access to its territory for citizens wishing to vote in the presidential elections - obviously, Belarusians living in Ukraine are considered an element not loyal to Alexander Lukashenko. The polling station is equipped with only one booth, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Meanwhile, a line had formed outside the embassy since 7 a.m. People came from all over Ukraine. When to…

The European Union, as well as the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, have distanced themselves from the fact that the northwestern Una-San canton of the Federation of (Muslim-Croatian) BiH is overcrowded with illegal migrants from Asia and Africa who want to get to Europe through Croatia. The cantonal authorities located in the city of Bihac want to resettle all foreigners from the cities to the abandoned Serbian village of Lipa, which is opposed by the Serbs who want to return to their homes...

Contradictions arose between the presidential Serbian Progressive Party of Aleksandar Vucic and the Socialist Party of Serbia of Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic during the formation of a coalition of the parliamentary majority in the new People's Assembly. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports from Belgrade, the representative of the progressives, Prime Minister Anna Brnabic, speaking about the prospects for cooperation with the socialists, said that at the top of this party there are people who...