‘Don’t Give In to Lies,’ Belarus Opposition Leader Tells Russians

[Rogue Valley]

‘Don’t Give In to Lies,’ Belarus Opposition Leader Tells Russians

9/9/20
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya urged Russians on Wednesday to resist what she called state media efforts to smear her country’s post-election protests as anti-Russian. Tikhanovskaya, 37, made the comments a day after President Alexander Lukashenko’s interview with Russian state media, where he warned that “if Belarus collapses today, Russia will be next.” Moscow has been quick to back Lukashenko after last month’s disputed presidential election while Western governments rejected its results as rigged. “Russian propaganda is trying to distort the events in Belarus,” Tikhanovskaya said in the video address. “I urge you to avoid falling under the influence of these lies.” Coverage of Belarus' protests on Russian state television has shifted between sympathizing with demonstrators amid the authorities' violent crackdown and discrediting the protests as an anti-Russian campaign run by the West to encroach on Russian borders. “Let’s not allow propaganda to poison relations between friendly nations and politicians’ rash decisions to hurt the interests of both Belarus and Russia,” Tikhanovskaya said.

Dozens of employees at Belarusian state media outlets went on strike to protest the election results and what they call biased coverage of the protests. Lukashenko has said he invited journalists from the Kremlin-funded RT broadcaster to replace some of them. A number of foreign journalists covering the post-election protests in Belarus have been stripped of accreditation. Tikhanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania after the election, thanked independent Russian journalists and bloggers for “helping reduce the effect of Russian and Belarusian propaganda.” Meanwhile, a Russian state survey published Wednesday said that more Russian respondents believe their country’s relations with Belarus were deteriorating compared to last year (32% in August 2020 compared with 22% in January 2019).

It's important for Russians to understand that the Belarus opposition presents no threat to them.

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[Ringo Stalin]

The most effective American weapons today are not aircraft carriers, not strategic bombers, but useful idiots, like Tikhanovskaya and similar scoundrels and idiots.

 

[Ringo Stalin]

In her message, this stupid bitch said that the police in Belarus acted "with unprecedented cruelty".... During the Maidan, during the seizure of power by fascist bandits in Ukraine 6 years ago, about 1,200 police officers were injured in Ukraine, 50 police officers were killed... This stupid hen doesn't know about the Internet and it's long memory?

 

[Rogue Valley]

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Folks ... a Kremlin disinformation specialist.