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The Belarusian dictator, while denying the importance of such actions, has reacted rather painfully to sanctions of a similar nature in the past. None of the regime’s elites want to sit without the ability of the European Union, not only in the domestic sense, to live or travel, but also for business development and the inevitable financial loss.
“We will no longer support the regime with a single euro”
On November 19, the European Union’s foreign ministers agreed on a new package of sanctions against Belarus, Reuters reported, according to diplomatic sources. According to them, the sanctions will be prepared in a few weeks, they will affect the organizations that finance the Lukashenko regime.
This, by the way, was confirmed by the EU’s head of diplomacy, Josep Borrell. These sanctions must affect not only individuals, but also organizations, entrepreneurs and companies. We will no longer transfer a euro to the Lukashenko regime. All the money will go towards the development of Belarusian civil society through various non-governmental organizations, ”he said during a press conference.
Belarusian public figure Nikolai Chalezin previously announced that “documents containing information about Lukashenko and his relatives and companies have been turned over to official bodies.” According to him, the data has been forwarded to the United States, the European Union, the British Foreign Office and “other interested international structures or institutions.”
The initial list, which will be completed, already includes several dozen surnames and some 70 companies belonging to them. It is not intended to reveal those names until the sanctions have been adopted.
A blow to the business that supports the regime
The first EU sanctions against Belarus were more “unnecessary” and did not even include Lukashenko’s name. The bloody repression did not end, and a month later this “negotiator” error was corrected. However, even these sanctions were more symbolic.
The closest members of the Batka milieu, such as the Kremlin, had to accept the fact that there would be no need for tourism in the EU countries. Lukashenko himself spent much of his long reign on the sanctions lists, with no assets (officially) there, nor was he more reluctant to travel, without much pain.
But even a regime like Lukashenko’s, with years of hard work and structured structures, needs funding. The billions of dollars loaned, canceled and generously donated by Russia are melting away, so for those companies that have not yet left the country, these are not easy times. Not only that, many state companies that are
The list of companies on the sanctions lists is not yet clear. If it is also about the large Belarusian state-owned companies from which protesting anti-government workers were fired, the financial situation of the regime could worsen: the peaceful protests by massive forces in the second month will cost as much as the entire public terror apparatus.
The sanctions imposed so far have not stopped the regime
Recall, the first package of sanctions was adopted on October 2. The EU announced 40 Belarusian officials, chiefs of force (MIA and KGB) and representatives of the Central Election Commission, who were subject to personal sanctions. Alexander Lukashenko was not on the sanctions list at the time, “as this would undermine Brussels’ demand for dialogue with the opposition through the OSCE and the release of political prisoners.”
The second package of sanctions was adopted on November 6. The European Union has sanctioned Lukashenko and 14 high-ranking officials. The updated list includes Viktor Lukashenko, the son and assistant to the president, Igor Sergejenka, the head of administration, Ivan Ternel, the head of the KGB, Ivan Noskevich, the head of the Investigative Committee, N. Eismont, a representative of the media, and others.
Raman Bandarenka, a 31-year-old Belarusian opposition supporter, died in a Minsk hospital last week. He was taken to the hospital on the night of November 12, brutally beaten and with a serious head wound. Militia explains that the man died “during the internal conflict.”
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