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Belarus and Russia are getting closer. Members of the government fly from Moscow to Minsk and vice versa. The protests that followed the Belarusian presidential elections on August 9 alarmed the capitals.
During the crisis, the friend comes to visit from Moscow. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin wants to fly to the Belarusian capital Minsk tomorrow. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after a meeting with his Belarusian colleague Vladimir Makey in Moscow. The presidents of both countries, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, also wanted to meet, according to Lavrov, in the next two weeks.
“The situation in Belarus is stabilizing”
Makej said that the situation in his country was stabilizing. “Although there is still some political confrontation, the intensity has diminished.” At the same time, he praised the attitude of the Russian government in the crisis in Belarus. Russia helped prevent outside interference. “We resist the attack,” he said. There had not been allowed a revolution in Belarus like that in neighboring Ukraine.
Close ties between Belarus and Russia
Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Chrenin will fly from Minsk to Moscow on Friday. The ministry announced this on its website. Russia is a close ally of Belarus. The Belarusian economy is dependent on its neighbors to the east and, on paper at least, the two countries form a confederation. In recent days, Presidents Lukashenko and Putin have spoken on the phone several times. Putin promised to send Russian security forces in the event of an escalation in Belarus.
Arrests again during protests in Minsk
Yesterday, at the beginning of the academic year in the universities and at the beginning of the school, 95 people were arrested during the protests in Belarus. The students had taken to the streets demanding the release of political prisoners. The journalists were also detained again. The online portal tut.by reports on six reporters who had spent the night in a police station.
Since the presidential elections on August 9, tens of thousands have protested against President Lukashenko in Belarus. They consider that the elections are false, and the result of the 80 percent of the headline is fabricated. Police and special troops from the Ministry of the Interior are sometimes brutal against protesters. The detainees reported beatings and torture after their release.
Belarusian President Thanks Russian Journalists
Lukashenko, for his part, thanked the Russian state broadcaster RT for “their support” during the protests in his country. In an interview with RT he said: “In these difficult times, you know how important you were to us.” In the course of the protests, around 300 employees of Belarusian state television went on strike in mid-August and many were fired. Days later, according to Lukashenko, Russian journalists and technicians took over the work in Minsk.
