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The current president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said he was unable to dialogue with the protesters.
The current president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, believes that mobile phones have become one of the reasons for protests in the country. This was reported on September 1 by the website of the President of Belarus.
“Not everything in life looks like we live it in the virtual world. We open iPhones, phones and look at them all the time. An illusion of another life is created. Some of our people ended up in this illusory world,” Lukashenka said.
Addressing reporters, he said he was unable to dialogue with the protesters.
“We started, sitting in the virtual space, pushing the authorities: we are going to dialogue. A beautiful word “dialogue”, right? Tell me, with whom? I can talk to you from morning to night, argue, you can agree or disagree. Question They don’t want any dialogue. It is impossible to dialogue with them. Because there were 30 percent of those who did not decide anything. I said yesterday: we listen to your opinion – schoolchildren. But they do not decide anything, because however, they do not have the right to choose, “emphasized Lukashenka.
Mass protests have been going on in Belarus since August 9. 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.
Mass protests took place in Minsk and other cities in Belarus on August 30. In the capital, protesters 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. In the morning, the security forces brought military equipment to the capital.
173 people were arrested in protests in Belarus on August 30. According to human rights activists, the detainees included minors and a Russian citizen.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of the European Union, said on August 11 that the elections in Belarus “were neither free nor fair”, and that the authorities used “a disproportionate and unacceptable violence “against protesters.
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