Lukashenko staged a show trial of an “agent of Russia” with an eye on the elections
A high-profile trial has begun in Belarus against the previously arrested Andrei Vtyurin, the former head of Alexander Lukashenko’s security service. In the case, in addition to Vtyurin, there are 15 more defendants, including other local officials and citizens of the Russian Federation, who are accused of receiving and giving record bribes - “kickbacks” for the supply of office equipment and software to government agencies. Vtyurin was credited in the press with close...