News archive on the topic "Babariko"

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, despite his dependence on Moscow, continues to behave extremely brazenly, which is why he risks being left without Russian support. Kiev political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on the Internet channel “And Graham thundered,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You need to have colossal political experience and the restraint that Vladimir Putin has in order to react calmly to behavior...

Today the Supreme Court of Belarus announced the verdict against Lukashenko’s strongest political opponent. The former chairman of the board of Belgazprombank and Lukashenko’s former competitor in last year’s elections, Viktor Babariko, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a maximum security colony. Convicted not for politics, but for bribes and laundering, but the arrest of the main opposition leader in the midst of the election campaign…

The Belarusian TV channel ONT aired a documentary film “Mankurts”, which tells about the game played by the Belarusian KGB with the editor of the Polish telegram channel “Nekhta” Stepan Putilo and the former deputy commander of the combat group of the anti-terrorist unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus “Almaz” Igor Makar, who fled abroad. Makar gained fame in January when he gave Western media a recording of a conversation allegedly with the former chairman of the Belarusian KGB...

The protests on March 25 and 27, which both Belarusian zmagars and Belarusian propaganda had been talking about for so long, failed. Now we can safely say that the opposition led by Tikhanovskaya has lost the street. And this is not just about the brutal dispersal of protests by security forces. Over the course of 7 months, protest activity faded from huge marches of hundreds of thousands to sporadic flash mobs on the outskirts...

Belarusian society is split almost equally on the issue of trust and mistrust in President Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the country is trusted by 41% of telephone survey participants, and distrusted by 46%. Such data are reported by the telegram channel “Demography has fallen”, which is quoted by VTsIOM, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Note that the survey was telephone, that is, it was conducted in cities. Meanwhile, the villagers, who make up 22% of the population of Belarus, support Lukashenko...

Russia should impose sanctions against the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who arrested the top manager of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko and introduced external management in this bank, where 99,9% of the shares belong to Russian owners. Belarusian oppositionist Valery Tsepkalo, who fled to Europe, stated this in an interview with Deutsche Weli, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now we should not offer money and talk about...

Relations between the presidents of Russia and Belarus have deteriorated significantly due to Moscow’s alleged desire to replace Lukashenko with Babariko. The scandalous Russian political scientist Valery Solovey stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel “AnalitikTV”, who presents himself as a member of a secret organization that rules the world, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. He claims that Lukashenko ignores Putin, who supposedly “has nowhere to go.” “Outwardly, of course, they demonstrate affection for each other...

The General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus has initiated an international search for fugitive oppositionist Pavel Latushko. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Latushko was charged with committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 357 (Conspiracy or other actions committed with the aim of seizing or retaining state power by unconstitutional means), Part 1 of Art. 361−1 (Creation of an extremist formation or leadership of such a formation or its members...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demanded that ex-banker Viktor Babariko return the money he allegedly stole in exchange for personal freedom. This condition was set in October during the famous meeting between Lukashenko and the opposition. The dialogue between the president and the former banker was retold on CTV by Yuri Voskresensky, who worked at Babariko’s election headquarters and later ended up together...

The Belarusian authorities have not given up accusing Russia of destabilizing the situation before and after the presidential elections. This conclusion can be drawn based on the transcript of the audio recording of the head of the Belarusian KGB, Ivan Tertel, with workers at the Grodno-Azot enterprises. It was posted by the nationalist Belarusian website “Nasha Niva,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Initially, when communicating with workers, Tertel paid more attention to the negative influence of Poland and Lithuania.…

The new president of Belarus after the departure of Alexander Lukashenko may become the former head of the campaign headquarters of banker Viktor Babariko, Maria Kolesnikova, who is in a pre-trial detention center with her boss. The self-proclaimed “leader of the Belarusian nation” Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stated this in an interview with the American publication The New Yorker, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Maria is very strong. Maybe she is our future president,”...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting today with the coordination council of the opposition... in the KGB pre-trial detention center, where those members of the mentioned council who did not have time or refused to flee abroad ended up. “The country lives under the slogan “Give dialogue!” Half of you here are lawyers and understand perfectly well that you can’t write the Constitution on the street. I look at this more broadly, trying to convince...

By leaving behind bars the failed presidential candidate of Belarus Viktor Babariko or the representative of the coordinating council of the Belarusian opposition Maria Kolesnikova, Alexander Lukashenko himself creates from them real leaders and “martyrs” who, if free, would have discredited themselves long ago. Russian film director Karen Shakhnazarov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "I have a feeling...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will demand economic concessions from Russia in exchange for materials from an American investigation into Russian money laundering. This version was expressed in his Telegram channel by Belarusian political scientist Igor Tyshkevich, who fled to Ukraine. “The Belgazprombank case, or rather its beginning, is the result of an investigation in the USA and Latvia (ABLV bank) into Russian money laundering. Including money...