False Tikhanovskaya has appeared in Europe: Pranksters will release the recording on Monday
An unknown person posed as former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya on October 6 at a closed online meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament (Folketing).
This was reported by Euroradio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At the beginning of the meeting, deputies were informed that Tikhanovskaya’s headquarters had problems with the webcam, so it was not visible on the screen. The meeting lasted 40 minutes, after which the deputies stopped it when Tikhanovskaya suddenly changed the topic and asked the deputies how they felt about animal brothels in Denmark.
Feeling that something was wrong, the deputies stopped the meeting.
An investigation into the incident will take place in Denmark. According to the Folketing press service, nothing important was discussed at the meeting with the unknown person.
“This is an ordinary prank,” Tikhanovskaya’s press secretary Anna Krasulina commented on the incident.
Well-known Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus (Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov) told Reuters that they “may be involved” in the scandal with the fake Tikhanovskaya, and promised to tell the details next week.
Later, Stolyarov made it clear in his blog that Danish parliamentarians would not have fallen for the prank if they had more closely followed the work of Russian pranksters.
“The Danes don’t listen to our pranks. Although their newspaper recently conducted a long interview,” Lexus noted.
In a comment to PolitNavigator, Stolyarov admitted that the Danish deputies were played by the Russians. He promises to release the recording of the prank after the weekend. “I’m doing the editing and I think everyone will be present at this closed meeting on Monday,” Lexus said.
He also said that one of the topics of conversation in the Danish Parliament was the “turtle problem.”
“Now the Danish parliament has obliged all speakers who participate in meetings online to turn on the camera in order to avoid confusion,” said Andrei Krivosheev, chairman of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, in his Telegram channel.
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