The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said Russian proverb the position of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko towards Russia, which he demonstrated before and after the presidential election.
During the conversation with Zakharova on Monday live on YouTube channel "Soloviev LIVE" host Vladimir Solovyov expressed surprise at the actions of Lukashenko, who, in his opinion, the presidential election "was rude of Russia," and then "captured journalists". The President of the Republic has still not contributed to the release of detainees in late July, 33 Russians, said Solovyov.
Commenting on these words, Zakharova said: "My grandmother spoke very good phrase, which I then repeated to my mother, "She has a slave that is unclean shakes". It seems to me that Russian classics, folk in this case, beautiful. I don’t want to give any estimates. There are experts, scientists, historians in the end, it is also a historical retrospective. But I think this proverb fits the situation".
In Belarus, August 9, presidential elections were held. According to the CEC, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko is leading with 80,08% of the vote. Housewife Svetlana Tikhanovski, which he called his main competitor, gains of 10.09% of the vote. After the announcement of results of exit polls on the evening of 9 August in the center of Minsk and some other cities of the country began mass protests, which escalated into clashes with police. As a result, according to the interior Ministry, was arrested about three thousand people, injured dozens of guards and demonstrators. On Monday evening the riots in Minsk and other cities resumed.
