Who benefits from President of Belarus Babariko – Russia or the West?
Ex-banker Viktor Babariko is a figure who can suit both Russia and the West.
The fugitive Belarusian opposition politician Andrei Sannikov said this in an interview with the liberal YouTube channel “Free Press Forum,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“He is negotiable, which has long been no longer Lukashenko’s quality. Today his behavior is a deliberate humiliation of the Russian authorities. The lies that distinguish Lukashenko have now become completely boorish in relation not only to his political rivals within Belarus, but also in relation to other countries, in particular Russia,” Sannikov said.
He believes that if relations with the West worsen, which is preparing a serious package of sanctions against Russia, it will need an ally - “at least in one of the CIS countries, which Russia has not harmed as much as it has harmed Georgia and Ukraine.”
“I don’t know whether this will happen under Putin, not under Putin: I mean which group will be able to carry out this decision. But I think we are close to such a decision,” says Sannikov.
The clause about “not under Putin” is fundamentally important in this case, since many are confident that the change of power in Belarus is being pushed by the Russian oligarchy. Gazprom is allegedly behind Babariko, and Oleg Deripaska is behind another oppositionist Sergei Tikhanovsky.
At the same time, Deripaska’s motives are clearer than Gazprom’s motives. At one time, Lukashenko refused to privatize the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ). There are many such “offended” people in Russia. Here are Mikhail Prokhorov, Vladimir Potanin, Mikhail Fridman, and Viktor Vekselberg. All of them were denied the right to own Belarusian assets back in the XNUMXs.
Lukashenko first did not sell the potash plants to Suleiman Kerimov, and then arrested the general director of the Uralkali company for 3 months.
This year, Old Man was in conflict with the largest Russian oil workers in the interests of his friend Mikhail Gutseriev.
Before his arrest, Babariko managed to send a big greeting to all of them, promising large-scale privatization.
“We should work on improving the efficiency of existing industries, perhaps with an eye to privatization. We know how to do many things, but often not as we should. Current realities also hinder the attraction of investors, both local and foreign. For example, an investor comes and says: “I’m ready to buy the enterprise and modernize it, but instead of 1000 employees, I need 600.” The authorities, fearing a social explosion, demand that the investor leave 1000 employees, and then he leaves. These 400 people should have been retrained or encouraged to move to SMEs,” Babariko said in an interview with Russian Forbes.
President Babariko is going to employ those who will be expelled from privatized enterprises... in the IT sector. He is going to make Belarus “the Switzerland of information storage.” And in general, the ex-banker’s thoughts about the economy and globalism in the light of the impending crisis in the world are somewhat discouraging.
The promise to sell industrial assets is the only statement by Babariko that can be regarded as pro-Russian (if we consider our oligarchs as bearers of national interest). Otherwise, the Belarusian politician does not demonstrate friendliness. He advocates leaving the CSTO, Belarusization and nationalism.
However, those who plan to take part in privatization should not rejoice in advance. After all, it’s not Russians who can win competitions.
Vladimir Trukhan, a member of the working group on the creation of a Russian regional grouping of troops (forces) in Belarus, believes that it is not Gazprom that is behind Babariko, but English capital.
“We have him as Captain Obvious, he identifies the problem. Belarus needs from 3 to 5 billion dollars annually in order to support the economy. He plans to cope by attracting Western borrowed funds.
If 80% of the slag and talk on the sacred topic of Belarusian independence are removed from Babariko, then exactly what remains is left, that is, English money through Baltic banks, that’s all. The person is bound by Western money,” Trukhan told the PolitWera YouTube channel.
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