"We are the owners in this country"

Lukashenko seems to be Maidan. He wants to expel journalists from Belarus

When you need to look for the perpetrators in a three percent rating, journalists, especially foreign media, always come across the arm. This rule works as Newton's laws, but only in authoritarian systems. For example, in Belarus.

On July 23, Alexander Lukashenko met with the leaders of the Economic Bloc of Belarus. He spoke, of course, about exciting. But if earlier he accused exceptionally independent sites and telegram channels, now, three weeks before the election, he switched to foreign journalists. And first - to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Look at the paper media. Today I took all the newspapers, looked at the so -called "Komsomol truth" in Belarus. " It will soon turn into yellowness. You see, their head, sitting in Moscow, was not in the Kremlin, made a statement, and the tendentious submission of information began. Let them go in the field where the battle is really going on today, the struggle for the crop.

An unprecedented crop in the fields is worth it today. Remove, tell us, take a picture of the combine-thousandth.

Tell us about these ordinary workers who feed the country. All tomorrow they will run to shops, these scribblers, to buy a piece of bread for themselves, relatives, friends, children. ”

But this is still so, for seeding. The Komsomol truth in the field sends, not deportes. Alexander Lukashenko is ready to do with others even more severely: “Listen, we are the owners in this country. Perform your duties. You can’t - tell me that you cannot. There will be others to do this. Yes, and in the government we, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are all sitting, waiting for the president’s teams. What is this attitude to the country? BBC, “Freedom”, “Free Europe” and so on, these streams. I'm not talking about tendenosis, they also call for riots. Why do you tolerate this? You accredited them here. No need to wait for any end to the electoral campaign. Expand from here if they do not comply with our laws and call people to the Maidans. I will no longer repeat, despite the fact that we entered this difficult electoral period. Well this is not a matter - an insult for an insult. Okay, they smeared me there and across. Already attacked the innocent chairmen of precinct commissions. And they have families, children. ”

These words were addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Make Make as responsible for the accreditation of foreign media. It is a pity that sweet dreams of expulsion are not destined to come true. The problem is that the vast majority of foreign media journalists accredited in Belarus are Belarusian citizens. And it is impossible to expel them anywhere. No, if desired, of course, everything is possible. But this will be a completely new stage in the degradation of the regime if he begins to expel his own citizens who have not been pleased with something (you can still change to Corvan). In the meantime

The only thing that can do the authorities (except for arrests and murders, of course) to shut up a throat to the foreign journalist is to deprive him of accreditation.

And then, firstly, he will be deprived of access to official information-they will stop missing at a press conference, not a single official will give a comment or interview. Secondly, having continued work, a journalist without accreditation becomes an object of administrative responsibility. Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code, "Violation of the legislation on the media." The fines that were forced to pay the journalists of the Polish television channel Belsat, broadcasting on Belarus (Belsat has been unsuccessfully achieved accreditation for many years), you can wrap the globe.

And most importantly: no one calls for riots. You can study broadcasts, texts, streams as much as you like under a microscope - you will not find anything. But Lukashenko's eyes are great. Until August 9, very little time remains.

Minsk.