Russia announced plans of the West to arrange a provocation at a referendum in Belarus: Belarus: Former USSR: Lenta.ru
Russia may provoke a provocation in Belarus at a referendum on the adoption of amendments to the country’s Constitution. About this in a conversation with RIA News The declared director of the Second Department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Polishchuk.
According to him, such a step will be proposed to resume the spread of protests. “To destabilize the situation, to arrange a color revolution, to establish our own control over the situation is a well-tested tactic of the West,” Polishchuk said.
He added that he added plans for provocations directly through the Belarusian opposition, and political emigrants receive money for their work against the government of Belarus. “Look what money is allocated to Belarusian political emigrants, how and who coordinates their activities, what kind of“ tours ”suit their leaders, at what level they are received,” the diplomat said.
President Alexander Lukashenko announced the need to amend the Constitution amid protests that gripped Belarus after the August 2020 elections. He argued that after the adoption of the new version of the basic law, he refused, but later he refused his words. The referendum itself, according to politics, should not take place in the second half of February 2022.