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Nationwide strike planned in Belarus – President flew to Putin
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Belarus’s leading opposition figure said on Friday that a nationwide strike was being planned to protest against the arrest of dissident journalist Roman Protasevich by President Alexander Lukashenko’s government.
Belarus has been subject to EU and U.S. sanctions since Lukashenko cracked down on protests after a disputed election last year. His decision to intercept an international airliner in Belarusian airspace on Sunday and arrest the 26-year-old blogger has brought restrictions on air travel and vows of much more serious action.
“We hope it (protests) will continue and workers are being prepared for a nationwide strike … people will go out on the streets again,”
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, now living in exile in Lithuania, told journalists after talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague.
The Netherlands was among countries that joined a fourth round of European Union sanctions against Belarus this week. Rutte said forcing a commercial aircraft to land showed that “the regime is clearly panicking”. He promised to work with Tsikhanouskaya on “whatever is needed” in a fifth package of sanctions.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko flew into Russia on Friday to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin
amid an uproar in Europe over the dramatic grounding of a passenger jet in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger.
The talks in the Black Sea city of Sochi were organised before the plane incident, but come as the West has accused Belarus of piracy over the way the plane was made to land. Belarusian air traffic control informed the pilot of a hoax bomb threat and
Minsk scrambled a MiG-29 fighter plane to escort the jetliner down, and then arrested Roman Protasevich, a blogger and critic of Lukashenko, along with his girlfriend.
Seems like the US and its friends are once again trying to foment an uprising in Belarus. Its okay if they do it but if someone were trying to foment an uprising in one of the USA’s vasal states they would be screaming in the media about outside interference. The US could care less about the citizens of Belarus, The US goal is to install a pro American puppet regime and build another military base near to Russia. The USA is a dying empire. The sooner they die the better off the rest of the planet will be. The global bully needs to go sit down shut up and tend to its own affairs inside its own borders.