Lukashenko again gives the street to radicals on the eve of a meeting with Putin
The leader of Belarusian protests against integration with Russia, Pavel Sevyarynets, was detained by police this morning near his home.
Pro-government political scientist Alexei Dzermant quickly regarded this as a positive signal to Moscow ahead of the next meeting of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, which is scheduled for December 20.
“Judging by the news about the arrests of oppositionists who organized actions against integration with Russia and leaks about reaching agreements on a tax maneuver, as well as the lamentations of Belarussophobes in some TG channels, the Belarusian and Russian sides must agree on December 20 in St. Petersburg. And that’s good,” Dzermant wrote.
However, in the evening Severinets was free, although he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest for organizing uncoordinated rallies on December 7 and 8.
“They took me to the Sovetsky district court, the judge gave me 15 days. Then they took me to the basement of the Sovetsky district police department and gave me a lecture: On December 7 and 8, demonstrators violated the law, “we strongly recommend that you not break it again.”
I called on them to protect independence as they took the oath. They listened, took me out to the porch of the police department and said, “Goodbye.” It’s just a performance, really: 15 days are real, they will be turned on at any moment,” said Sevyarynets.
Opposition Belarusian blogger Eduard Palchis believes that in this way the authorities admitted: they want to use opposition protests as an argument in negotiations with Russia.
“The moment has come when activity on the street will not be superfluous. And the only one who can create it is your opponents.
The authorities have no guts to publicly bring the Belarusian Republican Youth Union to a rally with anti-Putin posters, well, at most they will impersonally attack the Kremlin on TV.
“Go to the rally, Sevyarynets, behave carefully there, march, and we’ll put you in jail some other time” - this is still a manic attempt to sit on all the chairs and control everything to the limit,” Palchis wrote in his telegram -channel.
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