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If in the near future the Belarusian special services do not identify and arrest all the coordinators of the protesters, the story will end very badly both for President Alexander Lukashenko and for 10 million Belarusians, and the country will turn into a zone of instability for the entire Russian space. Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Artem Olkhin stated this on air on the First Republican TV channel, the correspondent reports...
The mistake of the Belarusian authorities, who ordered the forceful dispersal of the very first protests in Minsk, and the skillful moderation of social networks by transnational puppet masters made the current President Alexander Lukashenko practically illegitimate. Russia must play a more active role in stabilizing the situation. Co-chairman of the civil initiative “Union” in Belarus, Sergei Lushch, stated this in an interview with PolitNavigator. Do you think the protests could have been avoided after...
Footage has appeared on the Internet depicting the last moments of the life of riot participant in Minsk Alexander Taraikovsky, who, according to the official version, died as a result of the explosion of a homemade device during an attempt to throw it at riot police who were dispersing the protesters. “The versions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus and the opposition forces differ, as they should. But in the video footage we do not see a grenade explosion...
Half of the residents of Ukraine (even those left without Crimea and Donbass) are in favor of their country’s wait-and-see approach to the situation in Belarus. Just over a third of the participants in the Electronic Democracy project support the protesters. 12% were in favor of congratulating Alexander Lukashenko on his victory in the presidential election. These results of the survey, in which 12 thousand Ukrainians took part on August 13,...
The first mass rally in support of Alexander Lukashenko was announced tomorrow at noon in Minsk. The event gathers in front of the government building shortly before the start of the opposition demonstration, which is also planned for Sunday. The pro-government rally will bring together “forces supporting the state course,” the organizers specify. In general, the situation is reminiscent of Kyiv in 2013-14, when Viktor Yanukovych’s party also decided to bring extras onto the streets of the capital...
Yesterday, quietly, without explanation or apology, 32 Russian “heroes” captured near Minsk returned to Russia. Why 32? Because one of them turned out to have a Belarusian passport and, accordingly, he remained in Belarus. What happened to him is unknown. Russians were arrested with great scandal, amid cries about interference in the Belarusian elections and sending militants to remove Lukashenko.…
Propagandists of the regime of Alexander Lukashenko are disingenuous, declaring the created political and economic model “socialism” and the “Belarusian miracle.” It rather resembles Italian fascism. Russian political scientist Alexey Kochetkov told PolitNavigator about this. “Authoritarianism of governance, inequality in income distribution and a regulated market make Lukashenko’s regime akin to Italian fascism. Lukashenko created not a socialist, but a corporate state. It is obvious that power belongs to the state bureaucracy and...
Funeral events in memory of the man who died during the riots in Minsk were held today in Minsk. According to official data, a previously convicted citizen blew himself up with a homemade explosive device, which he wanted to throw at riot police who were breaking up an opposition rally. Maidan activists call the late Alexander Tayrakovsky “a victim of police terror.” Initially, “the Polish network of Telegram channels, moderating the protests, called everyone to a memorial service and...
Belarusian riot police were trained before dispersing protests in Minsk, showing footage from the Kyiv Maidan. Belarusian opposition observer Artem Shraibman said this in an interview with RTVI TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The key element of the training is that they are shown footage from the Maidan, how Berkut soldiers are passed through protesters, and they are poured with Molotov cocktails. They are all threatened that in the event of a revolution...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called Russian President Vladimir Putin today. This was reported on the official website of the Kremlin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Alexander Lukashenko informed about the situation in Belarus that developed after the presidential elections. Both sides expressed confidence that all the problems that have arisen will be resolved soon. The main thing is that these problems are not taken advantage of by destructive forces seeking to inflict...
