Several TV presenters from state channels in Belarus announced their dismissal

Several Belarusian journalists working for state TV channels immediately announced their dismissal.

The hosts Yevgeny Perlin and Olga Bogatyrevich announced their departure from the ONT (National Television) channel.

“Nobody influenced this decision, I made it myself. I hope that the same #MayaKrainaBelarus will return soon,” Perlin wrote on Instagram.

“We are few, but we are,” Bogatyrevich said in turn.

The host of the TV show Good Morning, Belarus! also resigned. on the TV channel "Belarus 1" Vera Karetnikova. “I wrote that soon everything will be fine. It will be so, ” she said in her account. The day before, the presenter Sergei Kozlovich left the channel.

As Tut.by adds , STV presenter Tatyana Borodkina and employees of the First Channel of the Belarusian Radio Alexander Shuster and Tatyana Filipchenko also quit.

In addition, recorded Vladimir Burko, host of the Arsenal military program on the Belarus 1 channel, a video message about his dismissal. “For five years I have been behind the scenes the media face of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus ... I would never, even in my worst dream, have thought that the soldiers and equipment that I talked about could be used against my people,” he said.

Updated . his resignation from the Belarus 1 TV channel The host Andrei Makayonok also announced .

• Since August 9, protests against the results of the presidential elections have been continuing in Belarus, in which, according to official data from the Central Election Commission, Alexander Lukashenko won once again. Residents of the country go to spontaneous street actions, demanding a recount of votes. The police and military violently disperse the protesters, using stun grenades and rubber bullets. Almost 6,000 people were detained in three days of protests. Dozens of criminal cases have been initiated.