Fighting atmosphere

Lukashenko took a Russian citizen hostage .

This phrase can be pronounced in different ways - but gestures are still important here. You can, woefully clasping your head, exclaim: how dared to do? How was it not ashamed to destroy enemies to destroy the union state? How did the hand rise to bring down the Damocles of the KGB sword on centuries -old spiritual scrapers connecting two fraternal people?

You can, armed with a scourge of satire, reflect that there was no union state and never was. And there is Russia with its imperial phantom pain - and there is Lukashenko, who has been using a neighboring country from the time of Yeltsin as a dairy cow, a beast whenever in Moscow about money and geopolitics. And if the conflict around the BKC will develop in accordance with its internal logic, then Kerimov, Voloshin, Medvedev, Putin will soon be in the Minsk pre -trial detention center ... Immediately after meeting with the Belarusian Prime Minister Myasnikovich, who will invite them to discuss the accumulated problems.

And you can shrug and state with expert complacency: well, I took a hostage - so this is a dad. This is his political style. Previously, polemicizing with Yeltsin, he put in prison the Russian journalist Sheremet. Then, discussing with the West, he sent a Belarusian opposition to bars, almost in full force. And now he was disagreeing with the Kremlin about the income from the sale of potassium - and Vladislav Baumgernner was detained at the Minsk airport.

By the way, this is an important point. It is clear that the largest shareholder of Uralkalia Suleiman Kerimov would not break the deal with Lukashenko and withdraw income from Belarus if he had not enlisted the consent of the highest Moscow authorities. It is also clear that the general director of Uralkali OJSC Baumgertner would not dare to talk hard with Myasnikovich if Kerimov had not supported him. That is, nothing new in the Union state happens.

As before, Russia is trying to "buy" a half -wing Belarus, taking away the most tidbits of property from it. As before, Lukashenko becomes furious with the mere thought that he will lose independence, and with it power. I remember that a year ago, he indignantly talked about how the older brothers (said that it was Kerimov) offered him 15 billion dollars for Belaruskali, and 5 billion bucks were given in black cash, and in this case, Alexander Grigoryevich could be believed. In essence, these 5 billion should have been compiled by Lukashenko’s personal pension fund: take it and gradually leave. And he is ready to buy and sell anyone, starting with Putin, but not his sovereign power over Belarus.

In short, all this has already been. The frenzied showdowns of Lukashenko with Russia last for many years, and it even came to the point that about the Old Man, as about some troublemakers like Yashin and Udaltsov, NTV workers riveted a revealing documentary emergency room in two episodes. In general, the blood is fed in the veins, as you remember other stories, such as the performance of our enemy’s sworn enemy, Mikhail Saakashvili on Belarusian television. Everything was, there was only one. Lukashenko did not take such hostages as the unfortunate Baumertner. He did not encroach on Russian top managers, and if, at the height of the gas crisis in Minsk, a warrant of the head of "Transneft" Semyon Weinstok was discharged, then in the absence of a defendant. And now, not only Baumgertner in the Winlet, but also a whole group of his accomplices is put on the wanted list through Interpol. This is a new stage or, if you want, a new page in the history of the Union State. Lukashenko equated Russian top managers to his opposition.

And this is especially interesting. If with the so-called civilized world the so-called Putin somehow learned to handle it and even the summites learned to conduct “one seven beaten” in the style, then nothing can do anything with the Old Man. The main trouble is that it is impossible to get Alexander Grigoryevich to take it with blackmail, and he is not afraid of nuclear missiles-after all, an ally. It occupies our most western outpost, protecting the Russian sky from the invasion of NATO bombers, which is not tired of reminding. That is why Lukashenko pronounces his "Munich speeches", directed against Russia. Now it has come to hostage.

In general, no matter how gesturing, the situation is directly tragic. To fulfill all his requirements, agreeing to the unspoken section of profit in exchange for the liberation of the prisoner, this means completely losing a face. Disconnect from the pipe? So summer is in the yard, although later. Order a new movie from Kulistikov? Well, the dad will call for her TV Navalny. Press with diplomatic methods? Then Alexander Grigoryevich, having felt powerful urge to freedom in himself, again darts west, we have already passed many times.

It remains only to endure, tightly squeezing the jaws, seek a meeting with the arrested and conduct therapeutic conversations with the Belarusian Ambassador to Moscow. Threatening with unheard of punishes: they say that the arrest of a Russian citizen can "influence the schedule of Russian-Belarusian contacts at the political level." However, such phrases are pronounced without any gestures. A dead, in an even voice, behind which is boredom, confusion and longing.