Presidential election and subsequent mass protests in Belarus was widely covered by Western media. The authors of most publications re-called President Alexander Lukashenko a dictator, which was not observed in was emerging, a period of warming relations between Minsk and Western capitals. “B” leads the compilation of the results of the voting in Belarus.The New York Times, Schanstra on the predetermined nature of the election results, the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka in this year’s staggered like never before. The country has had a very noticeable surge of public discontent with ever since he first became President in 1994 at the last election in Belarus that international observers considered free and fair enough. Alexander Lukashenko is faced with serious problems in the economy, dissatisfaction over how he treated a coronavirus pandemic, which, according to him, was not a threat to health, the desertion of representatives of the economic and political elite of the country and differences with a longtime ally and benefactor, Russian President Vladimir Putin.Politico, Scapolite arrested independent observers and journalists reported the event and the difficulty of access to news sites. Witnesses took video of troops moving to the capital, the main road running in Minsk, was closed and the town is filled with Riot police and the military. Meanwhile, in the run-up to the elections, the foreign Minister of the EU, Josep Borrell, warned that government restriction of media freedom and Assembly, “unacceptable”, as “the detention of peaceful protesters, local observers, journalists and activists”. “The EU calls on the Belarusian authorities to ensure full respect for the political rights of candidates to avoid the use of force against peaceful protesters, to refrain from further arrests of observers, peaceful protesters, candidates and members of their teams and to immediately release all activists, human rights defenders, bloggers and journalists detained on political motives,” he said.Der Spiegel, Permanency election was bloody, and their results have become a farce. Before the presidential election in the former Soviet Republic held a mass, unprecedented scale of the protests. After the vote in Belarus, many people again took to the streets in what the police have responded very harshly. Demonstrations against the distortion of the election results however were held across the country, attended by tens of thousands of people. Lukashenko, who is considered “the last dictator of Europe”, is ready to use the army to maintain his power. According to forecasts by the state media, he will get up to 80% of the votes. However, these elections were neither free, nor fair.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Hermeneutically polls of voters credited Lukashenko with 80% of the votes and his main opponent Svetlana Tikhanovski — from 7% to 8%. Unofficial exit polls forbidden. But where they were possible, one gets a completely different picture. And it is more consistent with the enthusiasm with which the country responded to the appeals Tikhanovski for change, dignity, and fair elections. The Belarusian service of “Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty” informs about the polling on 18 polling stations, where Lukashenko is gaining almost 10%, and Tikhanovski — more than 70%. Using the Telegram messenger is distributed photographs of the protocols from polling stations where the majority of votes from Tikhanovski.Le Monde, Franziusstrasse, August 9, will surely go down in textbooks on the history of Belarus. If you don’t like the end date of 26-year rule of autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, at least as the day when the government wavered in the face of people who felt that too long was denied the right to vote. In Belarus, none of the elections since 1994, when the President was declared Alexander Lukashenko did not meet international standards. Autocrat, who has since never let go of the reins, regularly re-elected with approximately 80% of the votes.Delfi, Literatu after the closing of polling stations on the streets of Minsk and other cities began to gather people who do not agree with the first voting results and opposed to the policies of the current government. Power in the face of Lukashenko once in the morning warned that will be hard to stop illegal actions. It happened soon after in different areas in the centre of the Belarusian capital began to gather people, the police began to apply the whole Arsenal of special equipment that she had available: water cannons, stun grenades, rubber bullets and other means. Judging by the pictures from the event, some protesters suffered serious injuries — for example, one protest of a grenade tore a foot, another was shot down a police van who tried to drive through the crowd (as a result of the incident injured several people).Gazeta Wyborcza, Pallacorda at the end of 2013 at the Independence square in Kiev gathered the Euromaidan protests on such a scale in Belarus seemed impossible. We told ourselves that the dictator Lukashenko has lulled society and quelled in him the spirit of resistance. It was assumed that it is the result of the repressive policy of Minsk in conjunction with the extension of the post-Communist welfare States. But we underestimated the Belarusians.Rzech Pospolita, Polesaw Friday the foreign Ministers of the Weimar triangle (Poland, Germany and France) urged the Belarusian authorities to hold free elections. Also featured calls freeto Aditi political prisoners (currently 25 people) and to refrain from violence. It is expected that this will depend on further dialogue between Belarus and the EU, which, according to diplomats in recent years have been “promising.” Given that the alternative to the President, who has been in power since 1994, is Imperial Russia, Belarus has something to lose. Only Poland its turnover last year amounted to more than $3 billion Since Russia turned off the tap with cheap oil, the Belarusian authorities are actively looking for alternative suppliers. Preliminary discussions on the supply of oil and Warsaw. Oil will be supplied from Gdansk, the infrastructure is already being built. But the key here is political dialogue, which will be difficult to sustain, if Lukashenko will choose a military solution.Prepared By Elena Chernenko
