The KGB allowed everything

Opposition in Belarus - outlawed

The photo collage “About life”: the leader of the Lyapis Trubetskoy group Sergei Mikhalok is now under the cap of the organs (in the background - the building of the KGB of Belarusian on Independence Avenue in Minsk) , the KGB allowed the KGB. In essence, this story about a time travel in a single country. Exactly like this: in terms of powers of the special services of Belarus, the USSR of the 1930s will soon begin to seriously resemble the USSR. The country's parliament is now considering amendments to the law “On state security agencies”, which will allow the Chekists for any reason to break apartments, detain the opposition and fulfill “other instructions of the president”. They say that the opposition is not forbidden to even shoot the issue of expanding the powers of the KGB Parliament to discuss without any announcements in the press and on television, as if we are talking about a routine thing. Meanwhile, if the amendments are adopted, the KGB officers will be able to hack castles in apartments, where, in their opinion, criminals are hiding, searches, arrest any citizen and put on handcuffs on it without any explanation of the reasons. If in the process of detention or search the Belarusian, personal property will be spoiled or a person is defeated, the “hebist” will not bear responsibility (this is written in the document) - it will be enough for him to just justify his actions with “professional necessity”. It will be possible to break into the houses or detain anyone on the street, except for diplomats.

“Other cases” have another interesting point in the document: in some “other cases determined by the President of the Republic of Belarus”, Chekists will be able to use firearms. What are these cases, the document is not specified. "Do they treat them with torture or, worse, the shooting of dissenters somewhere in the forest under the thrush?" - journalist Vladimir Chudentsov is perplexed in a conversation with The New Times. “They now do not need to plan operations to abduct politicians, take it to the forest,” the former colonel of the special services Vladimir Borodach, who lives in Germany, is categorical in their opinion. - And what? An employee entered, killed the owner of the apartment, who jumped up his consumption (since he did not hear the command to “lie down”), and received the order. He shot "according to the law" - and the point with the end. "

In anticipation of winter, President Lukashenko, meanwhile, again changed the geopolitical guideline, turning east: approved the Putin memorandum of Eurasia, published on October 3 at Izvestia, agreed with the Kremlin on a discount on natural gas, announced his readiness to allow Russian capital to participate in the privatization of Belarusian enterprises. Having finally chosen Russian capital as a strategic investor (and, in fact, the Savior of the Belarusian economy), Lukashenko turns away from Europe - he no longer needs it. And if so, then the “fifth column” - this collective term the regime Lukashenko calls the adherents of democratic changes - you can finally “pacify”.

However, the strengthening of the powers of the KGB is caused not only by the desire to deal with the opposition once and for all. In the near future, the number of dissatisfied with a total sharp decrease in living standards will probably grow sharply. On October 20, the authorities canceled the multiplicity of foreign exchange rates, officially devaluating the Belarusian ruble by more than 50%

* * At this point, the Belarusian ruble has already undergone a three -time devaluation: if in March 3,000 “bunnies” were given for $ 1, then in mid -October - more than 9000. Very soon in the country, medicines, fuel, products (logistics costs), and housing services will increase sharply in price. This winter will be incredibly difficult for Belarusians. Mass riots seem to be a very real prospect. “The authorities are terribly afraid of possible protests,” says political analyst Alexander Klakovsky. “They rely on repression, because they have no other tools.”

Press to the fullest! The field for the maneuver of the opposition Lukashenko narrowed as much as possible. On October 3, the Belarusian parliament amended the law "On Mass events". Now, any action or inaction of the company consisting of three people is considered to be such. “I went to the park to meet friends - this can already be interpreted as an unauthorized rally. For this reason, anyone can be detained and for anything, ”the Minsk lawyer Vladimir, who wished not to disclose his last name, is in full swing.

And before that, the opposition was "pinched" financially. For example, receiving money for the needs of non -profit organizations in Belarus will now be considered a violation of criminal law. In addition, human rights organizations were forbidden to keep money in foreign banks.

The interpretation and the concept of “treason to the state” has been expanded: for calls to participate in unauthorized protests, you can now go to prison for three years. Now there are rumors that parliamentarians urgently prepare amendments to the law “On Police”. The press service of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly does not comment on this information. As far as you can understand, documents are prepared in an atmosphere of strict secrecy. So, when the journalists asked the head of the press service of Nikolai Fox to comment on the amendments to the Law on the KGB that had already entered into force, he said: “This was a closed meeting of the House of Representatives, and we have no right to access to these documents or the project at all.”

The rustle of leaves according to human rights activist Oleg Volchek, new amendments to the law on security agencies will affect 80% of the country's population - so many Belarusians, according to independent sociologists, now do not support the current government. An independent institution of socio-economic and political research (NISEPI) calculated that the Old Man now supports only about 21% of the population. By the way, immediately after the publication of this report, the head of the institute Oleg Manaev was detained "on suspicion of drug distribution." Later, however, they released. But the sociologist, of course, understood the hint.

Now, for interrogation, the prosecutor’s leader is called the leader of the Lapis Trubetskoy group Sergey Mikhalk, who is on tour in Russia

* The agenda was handed the mother of the musician. . Mikhalok a couple of weeks ago allowed himself a number of unpleasant statements to the Belarusian president. “He is not a president. He gathered the “black” brigades around him and arranged the Genocide of the Belarusian people, ”Rocker said in an interview with Internet television 1tvnet.ru. - This is a person who hates his people and at best deserves a fair trial. But criminals like Lukashenko do not leave witnesses of their crimes. ” There were rumors that a criminal case had already been opened on Mikhalk. So far, the source of The New Times in the law enforcement agencies of Belarus specified, it was still not brought up. But the “hooligan trick” Mikhalk will definitely give a “legal assessment”, the source does not doubt.

Along the way, the authorities are looking for the compilers of “insulting comments” posted under the articles of the opposition media, judge the organizers of the recent “folk gathering”

* Took place on October 8, gathered about 2 thousand people throughout the country. The human rights defenders are delayed and “shmonat”. The persecution of Belarusian oppositionists is spinning with renewed vigor.

Some of them are in a state close to panic. The youth activist Anastasia Polozhanko is afraid that now the Democrats will “begin to shoot”. “Instead of the word“ detained ”in the columns of non -state media, the word“ killed, ”she exclaims.

Others are still confident in the ambulance of the situation in Belarus. “The dictatorships collapse from the rustle of fallen leaves,” says the ex-candidate for president Vladimir Neklyaev. “Something, but we have enough fallen leaves.”