Another Colour Revolution Attempt? Belarus - Election Time.

**harrybarracuda** · 30-08-2020, 04:34 PM

A bit of dictator 101. With Putin having offered his help, the next step is to offer them a nice cup of "tea".

Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Saturday cracked down hard on the news media, deporting some foreign journalists reporting in the country and revoking the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists.

Two Moscow-based Associated Press journalists who were covering the recent protests in Belarus were deported to Russia on Saturday. In addition, the AP's Belarusian journalists were told by the government their press credentials had been revoked.

"The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms this blatant attack on press freedom in Belarus. AP calls on the Belarusian government to reinstate the credentials of independent journalists and allow them to continue reporting the facts of what is happening in Belarus to the world," said Lauren Easton, AP's director of media relations.

The Belarusian Association of Journalists said accreditation rights were also taken away from 17 Belarusians working for several other media. Germany's ARD television said two of its Moscow-based journalists also were deported to Russia, a Belarusian producer faces trial on Monday and their accreditation to work in Belarus was revoked. The BBC said two of its journalists working for the BBC Russian service in Minsk also had their accreditation revoked and US-funded radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said five of its journalists lost their accreditation.

Belarus crackdown: Foreign journalists deported, accreditation revoked - NZ Herald

**Backspin** · 31-08-2020, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

A bit of dictator 101. With Putin having offered his help, the next step is to offer them a nice cup of "tea".

Belarus crackdown: Foreign journalists deported, accreditation revoked - NZ Herald

I wouldn't wish universal suffrage democracy on my worst enemy

**Backspin** · 31-08-2020, 01:54 AM

President Putin says that Russia will help Belarus (UPDATED!)

President Putin just gave an important interview to the Russian journalist Sergei Brilev in which he indicated that

Russia and Belarus are treaty allies in the CSTO
Russia and Belarus are also Union states
Russia has obligations towards Belarus
Lukashenko has invoked these obligations
Putin has agreed to create a “security reserve force” which is ready to intervene in Belarus in case of danger for the Belarusian state and sovereignty
Putin added that these forces will only be used if “extremist elements” violently threaten the security and/or stability of the Belarusian state
Putin added that there is no need for such a force now, and he hopes that there never will be
Putin also added that neither the state nor the demonstrators should violate Belarusian laws (he did add that Belarusian cops are much less violent than the cops in the US).

It is important here NOT to start guessing what that force is, what it can do, etc.
Why?
Because Russia already had such forces, including light mobile military and police forces.
No, what is important is that Putin has just drawn a red line and made an implicit threat.
I consider that threat as absolutely credible. Recall that just a few days ago, Putin told western leaders to stay out of Belarus, and at least some of them now clearly got the message (not all, obviously).

But, first and foremost, this is a direct warning for Poland and the Baltic statlets: stay out or else…
This is also a clear message to Tikhanovskaia and her puppet-masters: forget about Belarus leaving the CSTO or the Union state; also forget about Belarus joining the EU or NATO. Ain’t gonna happen.

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But will likely happen is , per regime change handbook, there will be snipers deployed by the regime changers to make it violent. Just like Bosnia, Kosovo, Syria, Venezuala, Ukraine ect. The same old move

at 58:18 former CIA man himself explains what they do. SNIPERS

" Insight people to riot, then kill a few of them with snipers, then say onnocent bystanders were killed by the govt you want overthrown. Weeve used that ploy so many times, from Jakarta to Caracas"

**PlanK** · 31-08-2020, 02:24 AM

Usually protests against a raging dictator are a waste of time but I'm starting to see some value in attending them now.

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How do I join?

**panama hat** · 31-08-2020, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

I wouldn't wish universal suffrage democracy on my worst enemy

I agree. Your right to vote should be withdrawn on the basis of being a cretin

**harrybarracuda** · 31-08-2020, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

I wouldn't wish universal suffrage democracy on my worst enemy

I thought Buttplug was a shit troll, but it seems you don't want that record to stand.

**Klondyke** · 31-08-2020, 11:08 AM

The 10% lady in exile - who does not have a program but to exchange the bloody Lukashenko (similarly Navalny's program) - made a mistake to meet US assistant of state secretary. That's will not help her to get embraced by the Belarus population.

They surely do not want anything same as their poor neighbours in Ukraine: that an strange old man with 47 (50?) years in politics will order them what prosecutor be kicked out...

**panama hat** · 31-08-2020, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I thought Buttplug was a shit troll, but it seems you don't want that record to stand.

Klondyke is giving it a go, however.

**harrybarracuda** · 31-08-2020, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Klondyke is giving it a go, however.

Klondyke isn't a shit troll, he's just a shit waffler like his mentor.

**OhOh** · 31-08-2020, 04:19 PM

Anatomy of coup attempt in Belarus

Posted on August 30, 2020 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

"The Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed in a TV interview on August 27 that the Americans, amongst others, had fuelled the unrest in Belarus. He explained that the controversial presence of 33 Russian nationals (with military background) in Minsk in the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus on August 8, which briefly created misunderstanding between Minsk and with Moscow, was itself was a joint operation by Ukrainian and US intelligence agencies.

The Russian nationals were apparently given job offers and were “simply lured there (Minsk), dragged across the border … de facto they were brought in on fake documents.” Evidently, Russia is in possession of hard intelligence.

Putin spoke up even as US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun wrapped up talks with top Russian officials in Moscow Wednesday. According to a VOA report, Biegun’s consultations “marked an intensifying U.S. effort to find a peaceful solution in Belarus.” The report took note that en route to Moscow, Biegun had “signalled that Washington was not eager to accept efforts by [Belarus President Alexander] Lukashenko to cast the election standoff as an East versus West showdown that might trigger direct Russian involvement.”

Simply put, Biegun was on a “damage control” mission. This can be taken as admission of defeat in the US-backed regime change project in Belarus. Conceivably, Russian officials shared with Biegun their intelligence regarding the CIA involvement. Later, crisply anodyne identical readouts were released by the Russian and American sides without divulging any details.

The CIA would roll back its Belarus operation — for the time being, at least. A commentary titled What’s Next for the Peaceful Uprising in Belarus? by the United States Institute of Peace sees “potential to bring change” in Belarus, but concludes saying, “While there are no guarantees of success, there is cause for hope. At a minimum, Belarusians have gained a new-found sense of dignity and belief in the power of nonviolent collective action.”

This appears to have been a well-planned operation. Under the garb of journalists, western intelligence deployed dozens of special agents in Belarus. Lukashenko has ordered their expulsion. Associated Press, Radio Liberty and BBC “reporters” have had their accreditation cancelled. A Swedish “photo journalist”, presumably an intelligence operative, was detained and was released at the personal intervention of the Swedish ambassador to Belarus and flown out of Minsk.

From the pro forma reaction by the European Union so far, Brussels has a fair idea of what really happened — that there has been a US operation with active participation of Poland and Lithuania (both EU countries) and Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, NATO statements have been rather combative. The NATO also began air exercises in Poland and Lithuania coinciding with the unrest in Belarus.

However, major European powers — Germany, France, Italy — didn’t want to get entangled. Their top leaders telephoned Putin to ease the tensions. The EU initially proposed OSCE as mediator, but Moscow sensed that it might lead to backdoor entry by the US intelligence. The OSCE is manned by NATO powers and is under American thumb.

The clincher has been the stern warning by the Kremlin that if the western operation continued, Russia will be left with no option but to intervene. The warning came at Putin’s level, making it very clear that Russia will not countenance a regime change in Minsk to hijack Belarus into the American camp. Moscow has asserted its special interests in Belarus under international law. In his TV interview on Thursday, Putin emphatically stated:

“Indeed, the Union Treaty… and the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) include articles saying that all member states of these organisations, including the Union State, which consists of two states only – Russia and Belarus, are obliged to help each other protect their sovereignty, external borders and stability… In this connection, we have certain obligations towards Belarus, and this is how Mr Lukashenko has formulated his question. He said that he would like us to provide assistance to him if this should become necessary. I replied that Russia would honour all its obligations.

“Mr Lukashenko has asked me to create a reserve group of law enforcement personnel, and I have done this. But we have also agreed that this group would not be used unless the situation becomes uncontrollable… we came to the conclusion that now it is not necessary, and I hope that it will never be necessary to use this reserve, which is why we are not using it.” Putin made it abundantly clear that Moscow stands by Lukashenko.”

The events in Belarus constitute a watershed moment. Russia will not allow another Ukraine-type colour revolution in the “near abroad”, aimed at encircling it with hostile governments. But Moscow’s intervention, if at all, will conform to international law and stem out of invitation by the country concerned.

That is to say, Russia regards it to be the prerogative of the CSTO countries to handle their internal affairs without outside unlawful interference. Having said that, Moscow has invoked the CSTO’s collective security doctrine. This sets a precedent. The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. A CIA-sponsored regime change project in any of these countries can run into the CSTO’s crosshairs. Considering that the CSTO is de facto led from Moscow, any more regime change project in Central Asia or Caucasus will trigger Russian countermeasures.

Most important, Moscow will not be prescriptive. Putin has supported Lukashenka’s proposal to draft a new constitution and hold fresh presidential and parliamentary elections, but transition should be lawful and orderly. This Russian approach has been already evident in Kyrgyzstan (2005) Turkmenistan (2006), and Uzbekistan (2016). Even in the case of Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004 and 2014), Russia didn’t oppose transitions but the West turned them into geopolitical contestations to instal anti-Russian regimes.

However, a caveat must be added. Putin also underscored that Belarus is a very special case. He said, in a clear reference to the US, “some forces would like to see something different happening there (Belarus). They would like to influence these processes and to bring about the solutions that would suit their political interests.” Russia cannot afford to see such nefarious designs succeed in Belarus.

In Putin’s words, “This nation is very close to us (Russian Federation) and perhaps is the closest, both in terms of ethnic proximity, the language, the culture, the spiritual as well as other aspects. We have dozens or probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of direct family ties with Belarus.” Not only that, Russia sources from Belarus almost 90 percent of its imports of agricultural products."

https://indianpunchline.com/anatomy-...pt-in-belarus/

**panama hat** · 31-08-2020, 04:22 PM

In 2019, Belarus continued to harass and pressure civil society activists and independent media. Authorities denied access to journalists at government events, arbitrarily prosecuted dozens of journalists, and arrested peaceful environmental protesters.Belarus remains the only European country to use the death penalty. Those condemned to death are executed by a shot to the head. Authorities do not inform families of the execution date or the burial place.
Death Penalty

In November 2018, authorities executed Ihar Hershankou and Siamion Berazhnou, sentenced on murder charges. In June, they executed Aliaksandr Zhylnikau. The fate of his codefendant on murder charges, Viacheslau Suharka, is unknown. According to Viasna, a leading local rights group, inmates sentenced on the same case are usually executed simultaneously.
Aliaksandr Asipovich and Viktar Paulau were sentenced to death on murder charges in January and July 2019 respectively. In October, Viktar Syargel was also sentenced to death on murder charges.
In August, Belarusian authorities and the Council of Europe (CoE) announced plans to develop a roadmap to a moratorium on capital punishment.
Freedom of Expression and Attacks on Journalists

Belarusian media law requires journalists working for media outlets registered outside Belarus to obtain accreditation from the Foreign Ministry and have an official labor contract with the accredited foreign media outlet. Freelancers find it virtually impossible to become accredited. Authorities often arbitrarily denied accreditation to journalists working for foreign media.
In May, the Foreign Ministry refused accreditation to Viktar Parfionenka and Yauhen Skrabets of Poland-based Radio Racyja. The response to Skrabets indicated his accreditation was denied because Radio Racyja had published work by non-accredited journalists.
As of January, only five media websites have been granted official registration, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). Unregistered websites cannot file requests for accreditation with government institutions.
Authorities routinely blocked media access to official events. In April, journalists from TUT.by, BelaPAN agency, newspaper Belarusy I Rynok, and European Radio of Belarus (ERB) were denied accreditation to cover President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s address to the National Assembly, despite both BelaPAN and ERB holding permanent accreditation to cover parliament. In May, authorities blocked journalists from attending a session in the Pershamaiki district administration on the redevelopment of a part of Minsk. In June, officials denied a Brestskaya Gazeta journalist entry to a court building due to “lack of accreditation.” Some independent media and bloggers were denied access to a news conference with the administration of the Brest battery factory project, and to a meeting between the head of Brest regional government Anatol Lis and environmental protesters.
According to the Belarussian Association of Journalists, in the first nine months of 2019, authorities brought 39 cases against 18 journalists for “illegal production and distribution of mass media products.” They were fined a total of approximately US$36,600.
In January, border guards at the Minsk airport denied entry to Olga Vallee, Fojo Media Institute program coordinator and a Swedish national, who traveled to Belarus at the invitation of BAJ.
BAJ reported that in mid-March 2019, police in Minsk detained two Russian journalists, Pavel Nikulin and Jan Potarsky, before their lecture at the Belarusian Press Club. Both were released three hours later without charge, but police seized their presentation materials.
In April, a court convicted an independent media editor of criminal negligence on allegations that some of her staff had been accessing the website of BelTA, the state news agency, without paying a subscription fee.
Also in April, authorities searched the offices of Belsat TV and seized computers and data storage devices following a libel complaint from a public official.
Siarhei Piatrukhin, a popular critical blogger, was repeatedly detained and fined throughout 2019 for coverage of protests against the battery plant construction near Brest. In April, he was convicted of criminal slander and libel for a series of videos he had uploaded to YouTube alleging police abuses.
Freedom of Information

In December 2018, amendments to the media law entered into effect requiring that all online media outlets keep records of and disclose to the authorities the names of people who submit comments. The amendments also provide for holding owners of registered online media criminally liable for any content on their website.
In May, President Lukashenko signed a decree blocking websites that called for “unauthorized protests” during the European Games, a large multi-sport event organized by the European Olympic Committees in Minsk in June.
In July, amendments to the criminal code articles on libel and defamation limited the definition of criminal slander and insult to speech uttered in a public space, such as in the media, a public speech, or on the internet.
Freedom of Assembly

In January, amendments to the law on mass events came into effect introducing a notification procedure for organizing public assemblies. However, in practice, sign-off is often denied, and organizers and participants are fined.
During Freedom Day on March 25, treated by many as an unofficial holiday and an alternative Belarus Independence Day, police detained 15 persons at an unauthorized opposition rally in Minsk. At least two were held in jail overnight.
Since 2018, of over 90 requests made to authorities to hold protests in Brest against the battery plant construction, only one was permitted. In April, police arrested 18 activists and fined three for their involvement in the peaceful protests. Also in April, police searched the car of activist Maisey Mazko, allegedly found cartridges and a briquette of an unknown substance, and opened a criminal case into alleged possession of ammunition. Another activist present during the search said the evidence was fabricated. Between May and August, authorities arrested and charged with administrative offenses at least 15 other activists involved in the peaceful protests in Brest.
Freedom of Association

Laws and regulations governing public associations remain restrictive, preventing rights groups or political opposition movements from operating freely. Authorities continued to deny registration to independent groups and opposition parties on arbitrary pretexts.
In July, new legislation entered into force eliminating criminal liability for participation in the activities of unregistered organizations and replacing it with an administrative fine of up to 1,225 Belarusian rubles (US$600).
Discrimination against Roma

In May 2019, approximately 100 Roma in Mahilioŭ were detained for supposed disorderly conduct during the investigation of a policeman’s alleged murder. Viasna reported that the detentions were ethnicity-based and involved violence, threats, and intimidation. Police held over 50 men in custody for three days, allegedly humiliating and beating them. They released the men without charge, threatening them with re-arrest if they spoke to media.
Later, the investigation found that the policeman in question had committed suicide. The head of the president’s office apologized to the Roma community; however, the interior minister refused to apologize and dismissed allegations of xenophobia. In June, a working group convened by the prosecutor general to investigate reports of police brutality found “no illegal actions or abuse of power.”
Disability Rights

In 2018, an interdepartmental working group drafted a law “On the rights of persons with disabilities and their social integration.” A vote in parliament was expected before the end of the year.
Key International Actors

Belarus continued to refuse to cooperate with the United Nations special rapporteur on Belarus, Anaïs Marin, appointed in 2018. In her first report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in May, Marin noted the “cyclical” and “systemic” nature of human rights violations. In July, UNHRC renewed her mandate for another year.
In February, the European Union prolonged its embargo on arms and on equipment that could be used for internal repression, as well as the asset freeze and travel ban against four people designated in connection with the unresolved disappearances of two opposition politicians, one businessman and one journalist in 1999 and in 2000. The EU and the CoE’s Committee of Ministers and Parliamentary Assembly issued statements condemning the death sentences of Asipovich and Paulau, and the execution of Zhylnikau, calling for a moratorium on executions as a step towards abolition.
The CoE also organized a round table on capital punishment in Belarus as part of the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels. The UN Human Rights Committee also condemned the execution of Zhylnikau and called for a moratorium on capital punishment. In June, the EU and Belarus held the sixth round of their bilateral Human Rights Dialogue, at which the EU called attention to the restrictions on freedom of assembly, the lack of anti-discrimination legislation, and the use of the death penalty.
In March, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media made an official visit to Minsk and called on the government to protect freedom of speech and de-monopolize state-owned media. In April, he denounced the search of the offices of Belsat.
In June, the German Bundestag Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid issued a statement on human rights and the death penalty in Belarus to coincide with the European Games in Minsk.

World Report 2020: Belarus | Human Rights Watch

**harrybarracuda** · 31-08-2020, 05:46 PM

"The Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed in a TV interview on August 27 that the Americans, amongst others, had fuelled the unrest in Belarus. He explained that the controversial presence of 33 Russian nationals (with military background) in Minsk in the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus on August 8, which briefly created misunderstanding between Minsk and with Moscow, was itself was a joint operation by Ukrainian and US intelligence agencies.

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

**bsnub** · 31-08-2020, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

Indeed. Sad these clowns.

**hallelujah** · 31-08-2020, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

He's just laughing at the world, isn't he?

Vlad will carry on being Vlad and Russia will carry on being Russia.

**Klondyke** · 31-08-2020, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Indeed. Sad these clowns.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

He's just laughing at the world, isn't he?

Vlad will carry on being Vlad and Russia will carry on being Russia.

Why not to express it very straight: It's a lie... How comfortable that we live in another non-lies world.. (20,000?)

**hallelujah** · 31-08-2020, 09:54 PM

FO Klondick

**OhOh** · 31-08-2020, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

Thanks for your time reading it and your comment.

**harrybarracuda** · 31-08-2020, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Thanks for your time reading it and your comment.

Oh I only read that far. I mean that's enough to show it's a load of your usual horseshit, isn't it?

I see I could have saved an equal amount of time starting from the end and seeing it's your witless wobblyhead pal. I wonder if he drinks his own piss?

**Backspin** · 01-09-2020, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Amazing how he can keep a straight face.

Amazing how you think he's making it up. I'd bet both of my testicles that it is true

**Backspin** · 01-09-2020, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh I only read that far. I mean that's enough to show it's a load of your usual horseshit, isn't it?

I see I could have saved an equal amount of time starting from the end and seeing it's your witless wobblyhead pal. I wonder if he drinks his own piss?

Again. Russia has literally zero legitimacy in the eyes of Hallelujah harry arm Bsnub. It has literally zero political grievences that should be taken seriously.

Why don't you start designing the gas chambers ?

**Backspin** · 01-09-2020, 06:26 AM

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

**harrybarracuda** · 01-09-2020, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Again. Russia has literally zero legitimacy in the eyes of Hallelujah harry arm Bsnub. It has literally zero political grievences that should be taken seriously.

Why don't you start designing the gas chambers ?

It's

N-O-N S-E-Q-U-I-T-U-R.

Just in case you ever had enough brain cells to rub together and understand it.

Did they do one of those fancy scans to see if any of the cells were spared while you were starved of air?

**harrybarracuda** · 01-09-2020, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Amazing how you think he's making it up. I'd bet both of my testicles that it is true

Of course you would, you're a gullible fucking moron.

**hallelujah** · 01-09-2020, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Again. Russia has literally zero legitimacy in the eyes of Hallelujah harry arm Bsnub. It has literally zero political grievences that should be taken seriously.

Why don't you start designing the gas chambers ?

What on earth are you wittering on about now?

**harrybarracuda** · 01-09-2020, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by hallelujah

What on earth are you wittering on about now?

Beats me. He goes off on these little tangents without a fucking clue what he's on about.

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