Unmasked: the failure of Russian propagandists on Belarusian television

This information was published by the Telegram channel NEXTA.

A man who attended one of the provincial rallies spoke about his support for Lukashenko, reports unian.net. He spoke out against “suitors and foreign interference.”

According to the Telegram channel, the protester is Anton Tarasov, a Moscow resident, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who even tried to run for the State Duma.

“So, in fact, he is one of those suitors, foreigners who interfere in the affairs of a foreign country, against whom he himself protested,” Alexei Novoselov commented on his Twitter account.

Delphi You have already written that many people, including reporters, news anchors and technicians, have resigned from Belarus’ state news services, in the wake of the current situation in the country after the presidential elections.

Alexander Lukashenko claims that Russian officials have already taken their seats. “I even asked him to send me reporters who could shed light on the president’s work and show an example of good work. “I know those people,” Lukashenko said.

After the presidential elections on August 9 in Belarus, the results of which were rigged, the rhetoric of the country’s state television changed dramatically. Now words like “Maidan”, “the division of Belarus” are heard on the screens, there is even talk of banning the Russian language and trying to intimidate the scene of unrest in Ukraine, writes currenttime.tv.

Talk shows produced by the Belarusian state television channel ONT are now adjusted to Russian templates. Nikolai Azarov, former prime minister of Ukraine during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency, appears on the channel: he fled Ukraine in 2014 and now lives in Russia.

“Now, judging from what’s going on, I can tell that everything reminds me of the preparations for the first Maidan. As for lime, as for instructions: it is quite clear that Western special services have been preparing for the presidential elections in Belarus for a long time, ”she says.

According to Maidan, Russian state television channels have long intimidated Russians. And it only began to sound on Belarusian television screens after the August 9 elections: when the scale of the falsification of votes became apparent and then massive protests began in the country, demanding new and fair elections.

The Belarusian authorities are trying to portray the protests as Western special services ambitions, not as natural outrage within the country. And that is why there is much talk on the screens about the “hand of the West” and the fact that the real objective of the protests is the “division of Belarus” and the desire to isolate the Grodno region of the country.

In Belarus, the mass protests have been alarming after the controversial presidential elections. The security forces are using brutal measures against the protesters.

European Union (EU) diplomatic chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday that the bloc did not recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Borrell told the European Parliament that on August 9 elections in Belarus were rigged.

“It just came to our notice then. August 9, we consider the election to be unfair,” Borrell said.

“We do not recognize him as the legitimate president of Belarus,” he stressed.

The EU has previously said that it does not recognize Lukashenko’s re-election as legitimate and is preparing sanctions against those responsible for electoral fraud and the violent crackdown on protests. However, EU sanctions on Belarus are being blocked by Cyprus, which demands that action be taken first against Turkey for its exploration of natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean.

Borrell pointed out that the credibility of the EU was at stake and called on member states to adopt sanctions before the summit in Brussels late next week.