Nemtsov:Lukashenka tries “to please” Putin by slandering Russian opposition

personae non gratae.


Lukashenka accused Russian politician Boris Nemtsov of having sent two groups of Russians to take part “in the mass disorders” in Minsk on December 19 at a meeting with editors of Russian mass media on March 18. According to the state leader, Russian citizens Breus and Gaponov fined for huge sums went to the square because Nemtsov had ordered them to.

The Russian politician said that the accusation was absurd. According to him, Lukashenka is trying “to please” Vladimir Putin by slandering the Russian opposition.

Boris Nemtsov: “He (Lukashenka - Euroradio) has achieved his goal; Putin has given him a credit for the construction of a nuclear power plant. He is trying to cooperate with Putin because no one else wants to cooperate with him anymore. That is why he has surrendered to his sworn foe and friend again. He has decided to slander the Russian opposition represented by me to please Putin. He is trying to establish relations with Putin and thinks that slandering the Russian opposition is the best way to do it”.

Commenting on the deportation of human rights defender Andrei Yurov from Belarus and on the black list of Russians, Nemtsov has recalled his own deportation from Belarus.

Boris Nemtsov: “I was deported in 2002. I have visited Minsk only once since then. But it was not a trip, it was a detective story. The security agencies did not manage to prevent the trip. However, I think that the black list (of Russian personae non gratae - Euroradio) does exist. And Russian opposition members are on the list because Lukashenka avoids them like the plague and has launched real repressions directed against them”.

Speaking about the legal basis for the existence of such lists in the Union State, there is no real Union State at all, thinks the politician. It allows the existence of such lists.

 

Photo by: Zmitser Lukashuk