DISINFO: Nationalists want to interfere in Belarusian internal affairs from abroad
SUMMARY
Belarusian nationalists living abroad come up with new plots against Belarus. In Belarus mutinies, blitzkrieg and colour revolutions did not succeed. Because of this, the failed “zmagari” (Belarusian nationalists), who now work in warm offices abroad, try to invent new ways to interfere in Belarusian internal affairs under the pretext they are doing it “for the good of the Belarusian people”. In addition, the integrity of the Belarusian republic has been threatened by foreign state interference.
RESPONSE
A recurring disinformation narrative about the West attempting to stage a colour revolution in Belarus and Belarusian protests.
The protests in Belarus have continued for more than 5 months and represent and indigenous development triggered by mass popular dissatisfaction with the political, social and economic implications of the Lukashanko regime. Mass arrests of protesters have not managed to stop the protest wave. Authorities’ activities also put a particular focus on intimidating and detaining journalists in order to restrict the work of the media. After the presidential elections in August 2020, Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tihanovskaya was forced to go to exile in Lithuania.
See other examples The West is behind the protests in Belarus; Poland and Lithuania finance Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s political agenda; Strikes in Belarusian factories are sponsored by Poland and Lithuania; The US and some European countries interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states; Colour revolution and foreign scenarios in Belarus; CIA will try to repeat a Maidan scenario in Belarus.
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