Kremlin candidates for the post of President of Belarus named
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to replace Alexander Lukashenko as president of Belarus, regardless of the West's opinion on this matter.
Liberal Russian political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky said this on RT, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The meeting with Biden had no effect on this. I think that he wants to replace Lukashenko with another – a more modern and more loyal ruler to the Kremlin, but he cannot do this under external pressure, when everyone wants it. Therefore, all this will come to the constitutional reform in early 2022,” Belkovsky said.
He named the owner of Uralkali, Dmitry Mazepin, and the beneficiary of the international fertilizer manufacturer Eurochem, Andrei Melnichenko, as possible successors.
“This could be a major Russian businessman of Belarusian origin, a patriot of Russia and Belarus at the same time. Dmitry Arkadyevich Mazepin has been mentioned more than once. That’s why there was such an attack on him, which was later canceled. Apparently they said from Moscow: no need. And Protasevich forgot his name at the press conference. Or Andrey Vladimirovich Melnichenko, for example. I don’t know anything about their ambitions,” Belkovsky hastened to note.
Let us remind you that the Belarusian extremist Roman Protasevich in an interview with the ONT TV channel hinted that Mazepin financed the Nekhta telegram channel, which coordinated the protests in Minsk. The topic was picked up by Belarusian state propagandists.
Meanwhile, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on this stuff, citing the lack of reliable information. The Russian businessman himself was forced to issue a refutation.
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