Russia fears that the countries of the West can arrange a provocation in Belarus in a referendum to adopt amendments to the Constitution of the country. About this in a conversation with RIA Novosti, the Director of the Second Department of the CIS Foreign Ministry of Russia Alexey Polishchuk.
According to him, such a step Europe and the United States can go for the renewal of protests and expand their influence on the country. “Destabilize the situation, to arrange a color revolution, to establish your own setting over the situation is a well-tested Tactic of the West,” said Polishchuk.
He added that provocations plans are developed directly through the Belarusian opposition, and political immigrants receive money for their work against the Government of Belarus. “See what money is allocated to Belarusian political immigrants, as and who coordinates their activities, which” tour “arrange their leaders, at what level they are taken,” the diplomat noted.
President Alexander Lukashenko declared the need to change the Constitution against the background of protests who had engulfed Belarus after elections in August 2020. He argued that after the adoption of a new version of the Basic Law leaves the post, but later he refused his words. The referendum itself, according to politics, should take place no later than the second half of February 2022.