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The last president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, is closely following developments in Belarus, reports rbc.ru. He revealed this fact to the Podjom portal.
“My dear republic and the Belarusians I love. I know a lot about them, even since they came to earn money in the Stavropol region. Great Belarusians! Now they have character. That is very good. I follow you closely. Today he reports what happened yesterday. Who the hell is here? I don’t think everything can be hidden: what happened in those days and if there will be new elections. The extremely important things are clear. However, much remains to be done. Everything is in the hands of the youth of today, “he said.
Furthermore, Gorbachev commented that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and said it was time to award the award not “under the blat” but on merit.
“It just came to our knowledge then. I think the days when the bonus was awarded to acquaintances or the devil knows which direction ended anyway. Now those who got divorced will get it,” Gorbachev said.
However, he did not mention people he thought were worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.
“I don’t know, I’m distant from those things, so I don’t want to say any last names. After all, I know how people can react,” added the last president of the Soviet Union.
Ria Novosti told Putin that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize on Thursday. The Russian president was appointed by his trustee, the writer Sergei Komkov.
Putin was appointed at a time of widespread suspicion, from the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navaln with material belonging to the Novičiok group to interference in Belarus.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, defended the nomination as outside the Kremlin.
Under the Nobel Foundation, candidates can be nominated by members of national parliaments and governments of various countries, members of international tribunals, university rectors, professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology, directors of national political research institutes and Peacekeepers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, Nobel Prize-winning members of the councils of peace organizations, current and former members or advisers to the Nobel Committee. Two Russians have won the Nobel Peace Prize: dissident Andrei Sakharov in 1975 and former Soviet leader Gorbachev in 1990.
This year, a group of scientists proposed to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Russian opponent Alexei Navaln. This was reported by Sergei Yerofeyev, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University in the United States.
After protests began in Belarus in August, Gorbachev told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that he believed Alexander Lukashenko’s appeal to the workers came quite late.
“Hoping for support, Mr. Lukashenko reached out to industrial workers, but it seems too late,” Gorbachev said.
He alluded to the fact that he also reached out to workers before the collapse of the USSR.
“Unfortunately, I did not feel the necessary support. However, I am not inclined to impose responsibilities on the workers,” said the former leader. Gorbachev mentioned that he left the position of president of the USSR voluntarily.
“I withdrew, but only to avoid fragmentation and war within the country,” he said, adding that the move had prevented bloodshed and civil war.
“This is the most important thing, but not everyone understands it,” Gorbachev said. He also said he was “seeing foreign influence” by watching the protests now taking place in Belarus.
The announcement of the victory of the authoritarian leader Lukashenko after the presidential elections on August 9 sparked the largest demonstrations in Belarus since the country’s independence in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The European Union has refused to recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus due to August 9. The 2006 presidential elections and his secret inauguration on Wednesday were not democratically legitimate, said EU chief of diplomacy Josep Borrell.
Lukashenko’s secret inauguration on Wednesday was condemned by the West, and new mass demonstrations against Lukashenko’s government began in Belarus.
“The European Union does not recognize these false results. On this basis, the so-called 2020 September 23” The inauguration and the new mandate of Mr. Lukashenko have no democratic legitimacy, “said Borrell, adding that the elections were neither free nor fair.
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