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“We need to contact Putin, the president of Russia, we need to talk to him. Because this is not only a threat to Belarus. (…) Today, the protection of Belarus is the protection of all our space, all the states of the Union and an example for others. If the Belarusians do not survive, that wave will continue to disappoint, “says Lukashenko.
Protests in Minsk and other Belarusian cities on Friday ended before midnight without clashes with militias and arrests of protesters.
Major protests have plagued Belarus since last Sunday, according to the opposition, they rigged the presidential elections, which re-elected authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for a sixth term.
The militia used water cannons, rubber bullets, incendiary grenades and tear gas against the protesters.
In total, almost 7,000 people have been arrested since the protests began. hundreds of people were injured and two died.
On Friday, medical workers protested the earlier police actions, lining up in chains near their workplaces.
Musicians and teachers gathered near the building of the Belarusian State Philharmonic. They were joined on campaign day by presidential candidate Andrei Dmitrijev and a partner of candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaya and Maryja Kalesnikava, head of Viktor Babaryka’s non-election staff.
As on Thursday, protests were held in the center of Minsk with women marching on Independence Avenue.
Drivers of all Minsk taxi services contributed to the peaceful protests.
On Friday, workers from a chain of industrial companies held peaceful protests. Employees of the Belaruskalij fertilizer company, the Minsk Tractor Plant, the Minsk Automobile Plant, the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, the Navapolock Naftan Oil Refinery, the Grodna Azot Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant, the subway from Minsk, the high-tech park and other companies protested. The protesters demanded re-elections, the release of all people and political prisoners detained during the protests and an end to the violence by the forces of order.
In a dungeon, protesters from cities like Brest and Grodno made their demands to the mayors who met with them, but the head of the Minsk administration, Anatoly Sivak, did not meet with the protesters.
On Friday night about 2.5-5 thousand. The protesters, many of whom were employees of the Minsk Tractor Plant, gathered at Government House. The militia did not start chasing the protesters, and after 9 p.m. the local (and Lithuanian) crowd dispersed over time.
True to Aliaksandr Lukashenko, the CRK announced on Friday that the current Belarusian leader had received 80.1 percent of the vote last week. her main rival, opposition candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, won 10.12 percent.
According to the Commission, Dmitrijev received 1.21%, Hana Kanapatskaya 1.68% and Siarhei Cherachen 1.14%. votes. 4.59 percent voted against all the candidates. voters.
Voter turnout was 84.28 percent, according to the CRK.
The meeting was, in fact, secret: it was not announced, no representative of the media was invited, and there was no video broadcast of the meeting.
The actions of the country’s authorities and security agencies to suppress post-election protests have been harshly criticized by officials from the European Union and the United States.
The head of European Union diplomacy, Joseph Borrell, announced on Friday that the Community does not recognize the official results of the presidential elections in Belarus and is beginning to work on sanctions against those who have violated democratic principles.
“Belarus: The EU does not agree with the election results. Work is underway to punish those responsible for the violence and counterfeiting,” he wrote on Twitter on Friday after a videoconference of EU foreign ministers.
An extraordinary video meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council was held, one of the main topics of which was the situation in Belarus and possible sanctions against “perpetrators of acts of violence and counterfeiting”.
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