Instead of the Belarusians who caved in to the Maidan protesters, Lukashenko calls on Russian journalists to work
The entourage of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is recruiting Russian journalists to work in state media.
Military correspondent Semyon Pegov stated this on air on the Solovyov Live Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Pegov, local journalists do not want to cooperate with the Belarusian authorities and are leaving en masse.
“Lukashenko’s team is now very actively recruiting Russian correspondents and Russian cameramen to work in Minsk. As I understand it, his own journalists are no longer ready to work for him for any salary and [employees] are urgently needed. It’s funny how biased they detained us and how now they really want to enlist support. But this may be a small thing, but it is symptomatic,” Pegov said.
Let us remember that at the beginning of mass protests in Belarus, security forces extremely brutally detained and beat journalists. Among them turned out to be a Russian military correspondent Semyon Pegov, who was released from the pre-trial detention center after the intervention of Russian diplomats.
PolitNavigator also reported that Belarusian state TV channels began quit en masse journalists dissatisfied with the president's policies.
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