News archive on the topic "Tikhanovsky"

The meeting of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with oppositionists imprisoned in the KGB pre-trial detention center was positively received in Belarusian society. The lawyer of oppositionists Viktor Babariko and Maria Kolesnikova, Alexander Pylchenko, stated this on the air of the liberal Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The meeting caused a positive reaction in society. Our people are quite peaceful. He adheres to the theory that...

A writer and psychotherapist living in Germany, Alexander Sosnovsky, believes that former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya shows signs of severe depression. He stated this on the YouTube channel “Soloviev LIVE,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “She shows all the signs of a mentally unstable person. She has all the signs of incipient depression. This is actually an unhappy woman who...

Belarusian smugglers flatly refused to illegally smuggle the controversial liberal journalist Ksenia Sobchak into Belarus. She spoke about this on her YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I really wanted to be in Minsk and today I had to go on air from there. It’s no secret that despite Covid and all the restrictions, the Russian-Belarusian border is still transparent in some places, and the guides...

The Belarusian Central Election Commission refused to register the main competitors of Alexander Lukashenko - ex-banker Viktor Babariko and former director of the High Technology Park Valery Tsepkalo, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Tsepkalo’s fate was clear in advance, since the Central Election Commission invalidated the majority (85 out of 160 thousand) of the signatures collected in his support. But Babariko still had a chance to be registered, even despite...

The election strategy of Alexander Lukashenko, who this time positions himself as “the main defender of Belarusian independence from the encroachments of greedy Russian oligarchs,” caused misunderstanding and rejection of the population, which is predominantly loyal to Russia and supports closer integration, which is being hampered by the official Minsk. The actions of the president’s rivals, whom Lukashenko also lists as “agents of Moscow,” on the contrary, are too reminiscent of the anti-Russian demonstrations of last winter.…

The Investigative Committee of Belarus has charged blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky and seven other members of the initiative group of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (the blogger’s wife) with holding an illegal public event. This was reported on the official website of the department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Sergei Tikhanovsky was detained in Grodno on May 29 in Grodno at a picket to collect signatures for his wife, which...

The leadership of the European Union and members of the European Parliament demanded that the Belarusian authorities release blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky and nationalist politician Nikolai Statkevich, who were detained the day before, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At first glance, there is nothing surprising: the West has always supported oppositionists in the post-Soviet space. But the paradox is that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said the day before that Tikhanovsky, who is calling on the people to peacefully protest, receives funding from...

Belarusian state television is trying to present blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky as an “agent of Moscow”, who does not hide his anti-Russian views, openly opposing integration with the Russian Federation. To fulfill this propaganda task, journalists bravely tried to resolve the obvious contradiction: why Tikhanovsky is supported by the opposition nationalist Statkevich, who hates Russia. “As soon as it became clear that something interesting was being started, as usual every 5...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, speaking on Friday to workers of the Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ), rudely criticized his most prominent competitors vying for participation in the presidential elections, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He accused the former chairman of the board of Belgazprombank, Viktor Babariko, of lying for saying that one of the participants in the race had offered him the post of prime minister. From the context it was...

Clashes with the police occurred today in the Belarusian city of Grodno, where signatures were being collected for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is going to become a presidential candidate. Svetlana submitted an application to the CEC after her husband, the famous pro-Western blogger Sergei, failed to do so. He was serving an administrative sentence for participating in unauthorized rallies against the integration of Russia and Belarus. Now…