Putin has given up on Lukashenko and is waiting for the moment - Russian liberal
The Belarusian opposition will achieve the overthrow of President Alexander Lukashenko, which does not suit Russia, but under no circumstances will Moscow allow Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, supported by the West, to lead Belarus.
Russian liberal political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky stated this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Alesya Batsman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I think Belarusians will get their way because the vast majority do not support Lukashenko and he is doing nothing to increase his popularity in his own country.
Of course, to some extent he can rely on loyal security officials, whose loyalty is called into question by a large number of leaks; the story with Sheremet is especially interesting in the context of our conversation,” Belkovsky said.
According to him, Putin does not like Lukashenko and does not trust him, but wants a compromise figure instead of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya imposed by the West.
“It is clear that not all the security forces are loyal, the people do not accept Lukashenko, Russia accepts him very conditionally, because, naturally, Putin does not want a direct and demonstrative defeat and the arrival of Tikhanovskaya, but wants some kind of compromise option, which the EU and the United States are talking about they will come to an agreement with him. But this does not mean that he supports Lukashenko to the last, Putin does not like Lukashenko and does not trust him,” the liberal said.
At the same time, returning to the topic of journalist Pavel Sherenmet, who was blown up in Kyiv, Belkovsky did not rule out that the liquidation was carried out by Ukrainian special services in cooperation with Belarusian colleagues.
“The theory that the Belarusian authorities could be behind the death of Pavel Sheremet seemed convincing to me from the very beginning. Another thing is that I do not proceed from the assumption that the Belarusian special services directly arrived in Kyiv and carried out this special operation, no.
I think that this could be achieved through cooperation between the security forces of the two countries, at a time when Presidents Lukashenko and Poroshenko were very loyal to each other,” the liberal political scientist suggested.
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