Belarus’s authorities refused to make a law on foreign agents, which had to protect the country’s sovereignty from foreign influence. The Vice-Prime Minister of the Republic of Igor Petryshenko told about this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
According to him, the country’s leadership is satisfied with positive results that bring previously developed measures to combat external information pressure.
The law was developed with the participation of the Chairman of the Commission on International Cases of the House of Representatives Andrei Savin and his deputy Oleg Gaidukevich. The basis of Belarusian deputies took the Russian law on foreign laws, but also took into account the specifics of the republic.
know when I believe that there are no foreign entries in Belarus? When some leaders of our opposition get a job. How can you not work and live as possible? “How can Gaidukevich said in December 2020, when mass protests continued .
It was assumed that after the adoption of laws, non-profit organizations and media, which would be recognized by the ina groups, will have to pay a fine, and their employees were planned to prohibit government positions, and other sanctions would be introduced.
July 13, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, announced the beginning of an active struggle against the “pro-Western media” in the republic, as well as non-profit and non-governmental organizations. This was followed by mass searches in dozens of public associations and editions.