The West panicked: Nekhta threw pensioners into the Belarusian riot police
An extraordinary escalation of protest activity occurred today in Minsk. Stun grenades exploded, streets were blocked, tires burned.
All this is connected with the fact that on Sunday the preventive measure was changed for two people from the entourage of the strongest opposition figure Viktor Babariko - they were released from the pre-trial detention center, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Rumors spread that the ex-banker himself might be released.
Polish coordinators of street activity were afraid that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko would be able to feign a negotiated protest with the conditionally released “constructive opposition” and present this simulacrum to Russia and the West.
Therefore, it was decided to force the protest. Pensioners took to the streets. This new form began to be implemented last week, when the women's marches finally fizzled out.
While several hundred grandparents were walking around the center of Minsk, everything was calm. But this scenario did not suit the Polish puppeteers. Therefore, pensioners first tried to storm one of the universities “in support of students.”
And when the gates were simply closed in their faces, elderly citizens began to rush onto police buses. Ostensibly in order to repel the arrested doctors who were caught at an unauthorized picket.
Security forces responded with tear gas and stun grenades. The Polish network immediately made videos of crying old women go viral.
Nekhta called on his flock to take to the streets to avenge the offended pensioners. The congregation responded. The majority lined up on duty in chains of solidarity along the roads, but there are already more than enough exhausted radicals in Minsk after two months of protest.
Therefore, massive road blocking began in different areas. In some places the Maidan workers lined up themselves, in others they built barricades, and at one of the intersections they set fire to tires a la the Kiev Maidan.
It is characteristic that Minsk drivers, who until now had not resisted such youth activity (many even supported the protest by beeping desperately), today aggressively expressed dissatisfaction. The Ministry of Internal Affairs released a video showing a car hitting a young man who was blocking the road.
The festival of disobedience lasted several hours. Then the national Belarusian game of tag began - security forces with batons chased Maidan protesters through the courtyards.
Tomorrow we can expect another moan on social networks about brutal beatings and harsh detentions. Against this background, only a political suicide will be able to start negotiations with the authorities.
This means that Babriko will have nothing to pay Lukashenko for his release.
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