Urgant filmed a parody of Lukashenka with a pistol and her son / GORDON

At the start of the show, Urgant and his co-host Dmitry Khrustalev came out into the audience with toy squirt guns and bulletproof vests.

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Urgant told Khrustalev, “Look, Mitka, take a stand.” After that, he looked around the room and said that “the rats had escaped”, repeating Lukashenka’s phrase about the protesters.

The host also called the audience “handsome.” This is what Lukashenka called the riot police who were guarding his residence during the protests.

In response from the audience they shouted: “We are with you until the end.”

“We played for you a fragment of Mikhail Tanich’s wonderful poem” Papa can, papa can do anything, “said Urgant, ending the parody.

Lukashenka hit the camera lenses twice with a pistol in his hands. For the first time it was the night of August 23, when the next protest actions were held in Minsk. Protesters gathered near the Palace of Independence and Lukashenka At that time flew through the city by helicopter. She landed near the palace, got out of the helicopter with a tentless submachine gun and asked the guards if “there was anyone else there.” The President of Belarus was accompanied by his 15-year-old son Nikolai who was wearing a bulletproof vest, an assault helmet and a machine gun.

The second time Lukashenka appeared with a machine gun on the territory in front of the Independence Palace on August 30. He was wearing a white shirt and a bulletproof vest. Two people accompanied him, one of them wearing a camouflage uniform and had a radio.

Mass protests took place in Minsk on August 30 and in other cities in Belarus. In the capital protesters He approached the Independence Palace to congratulate Lukashenka on his 66th birthday. The protesters brought “gifts” to the president, including a black coffin with crowns and a cardboard cockroach.

Since August 9, there have been massive protests in Belarus. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections, which were held from August 4-9, were falsified. According to official data, Lukashenka won with 80.1% of the voters. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya came in second with 10.1% of the vote. The rest of the candidates earned less than 2%. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.

The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the demonstrations, in particular with the use of stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. During the protests, more than 7,000 protesters were arrested (many of them have already been released), hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died.

173 people were arrested in protests in Belarus on August 30. According to human rights activists, the detainees included minors and a Russian citizen. According to the latest data from the country’s Interior Ministry, the security forces detained 41 people in the protests on September 4.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of the European Union, stated on August 11 that the elections in Belarus “were neither free nor fair” and that the authorities used “violence disproportionate and unacceptable “against the protesters.