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In the press service of the current Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, propagandists from the Russian Federation who came to him to record interviews are called “representatives of the main Russian media.”
Belarus’ Acting President Alexander Lukashenko grants interviews to Kremlin propagandists. On September 8, the website of the President of Belarus reports.
Lukashenko was interviewed by the editor-in-chief of the Russia Today television channel Margarita Simonyan, the Channel One correspondent Anton Vernitsky, the host of the Vesti program on the Russia 1 television channel Yevgeny Rozhkov and the editor-in-chief of the Moscow radio station Says Roman Babayan.
The interview is recorded in the Minsk Independence Palace.
Mass protests have been going on in Belarus since August 9. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections 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. 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, about 8,000 protesters were detained, hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on August 31 were the first in the world to impose personal sanctions on the Belarusian authorities after the elections and the crackdown on peaceful protests in the country. The Baltic states made 30 Belarusian officials persona non grata, including Lukashenka.
On August 28, the foreign ministers of the European Union countries agreed to impose sanctions against top Belarusian officials due to electoral fraud and violence against protesters.
Ukraine will decide on sanctions against Belarus when the EU introduces restrictions, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
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