Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makay in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper “said that the Russian special services warned Minsk on the preparation of provocations by Russian oligarchs after the elections of the President of the Republic in 2020.
“The situation developed as rapidly that much was incomprehensible. Now more or less everything becomes in its place. Perhaps, then there were assumptions that some actions are being taken from individual Russian oligarchs or former Russian oligarchs,” said Mock. According to him, thanks to the information of the Russian special services, in which “specified specific names and the names of the oligarchs”, the provocations managed to prevent.
At the same time, McAi affirmatively answered the clarifying question, whether it was about Russian oligarchs. “Former Russian oligarchs, including,” said the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
In Belarus, protests continued in Belarus after the presidential election on August 9, 2020. The reason for them was the estimated violations during the voting. Shares were rigidly suppressed by the police and riot police. Tens of thousands of people were detained, many told about torture and beating in insulators. Four people were killed in clashes with security forces, dozens – sentenced to imprisonment.