Around Russia Belarus. Negotiation? There are examples October 5, 2020 Valentin Mikhailov The meeting in Vilnius of France President Macron with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, whom the opposition of Belarus recognizes as its representative abroad, added new opportunities to the permission of Klinch, in which Lukashenko and the opposition are located. Moreover, the Chancellor of Germany Merkel announced that she would meet with Tikhanovskaya. Why does this change the situation?

In the opposition Declared outlawed October 5, 2020 Alexander Golts Remember the episode from the Seventeen Moments of Spring, where Müller-Broneva orders the police to grab everyone who looks like, albeit remotely, to the escaped Russian radio operator: "If they make a mistake and grab more than necessary, I excuse them." It seems that at a meeting in the Kremlin, someone very high-ranking said something similar about the need to change the attitude of the punitive organs to dissenters.