“We have no questions for them” - Lukashenko personally abolished the ban on the entrance to two Pussy Riot participants to Belarus

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko personally instructed to cancel the ban on entry into the country by Pussy Riot participants Olga Kuracheva and Veronica Nikhulshina. It is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to Kurachev.

Kuracheva called the head of the administration of the President of Belarus Natalya Kochanova. The recording of the conversation is at the disposal of the Mediazones, the four Belarusian journalists confirmed that the voice on the recording is very similar to Kochanova's voice.

The lifting of the ban on the entry of Radio Liberty was confirmed by the head of the Department of Citizenship and Migration Alexei Begun. The Secretary of the Presidential Administration told Mediazone that she knew about the conversation, but she does not know his content.

“We monitor the whole situation here, and Alexander Grigoryevich, our president, learned about this situation that there are some complaints about you. So, you know, we have no complaints about you. We saw from the media, saw our president, said: “God, what is it? What are our questions to them? There are no questions. ” Everything, there are no questions, so I'm calling you, ”said Kochanova.

Kuracheva recalled that at the airport of Minsk they put stamps on the ban on entry in the passport, to which the head of the presidential administration explained that this issue would be solved and the task has already been set. “You know, as always, our organs have been obscured somewhere,” she concluded.

In response to the question of Radio Liberty about a call from the Administration of the President of Belarus, the head of the Department of Citizenship Begun said: “This is true, I confirm, they can come to games.”

In June, Belarus prohibited Kuracheva and Nikulshina. They flew to Kyiv with a transfer in Minsk. There they were announced to the ban on the entrance to Belarus until May 22, 2020. The Pussy Riot participants were still allowed.

In May, Veronika Nikulshina was detained in Moscow. The police came home to her friends, whom she was visiting, and announced the need to conduct a survey, since "a group of youth damaged a certain state property." The survey was conducted by the employees of the Tverskaya police department.

On April 16, Nikulshina was detained on the way to the Golden Mask award ceremony along with the leaders of the theater project. On the removal ”by Alexei Ershov and Maxim Karnaukhov. They were released in three hours, explaining the detention with a “verification of documents”.

Nikulshina was among the Pussy Riot participants, who in the summer of 2018 ran out to the football field during the final match of the World Cup. For this, the court appointed her 15 days of arrest.