G. Nausda: Lithuania supports Belarusians to fight for a free life
President Gitanas Nausda’s annual message to the Seimas. Photo of Judita Grigelytė (V).
The protests have irrevocably changed part of Belarusian society two years since they started, and Lithuania supports them in order to fight for a free life, says President Gitanas Nausda.
For two years, the Belarusian nation decided to fight for a free life in a democratic country. Lithuania and its mons strongly support this. In the 2020s, mass protests began to change a large part of the Belarusian society, which took an unpaved path towards democratic values, according to Sviatlana Cichanouska, the leader of the Belarusian democratic society during the time of the Lithuanian leader, and the participants of the New Belarus Congress held in Vilnius.
G. Nausda should be proud that Vilnius has become a place where Belarusian civil society has found a safe haven, the President’s message states.
Lithuanians are well aware of the price of democracy, cherish their freedom and always support other nations’ struggle to create a democratic society. Lithuania and Belarus share a common history, so it is very important for Lithuania to support the democratic society of Belarus, he said.
G. Nausda emphasized the right of the people of Belarus to hold new, free and fair elections.
According to him, the entire European Union agrees that all repression must be ended and political prisoners released, and the principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law must be ensured.
According to the President, Lithuania will continue to support the implementation of the goal so that already democratic Belarus can find its rightful place in the European community.
Belarusians celebrated the anniversary of the presidential election with a march and rally in Vilnius
Around half a dozen Belarusian opposition representatives commemorated the second anniversary of the presidential election in Vilnius on Tuesday, in Cathedral Square and at the Belarusian Embassy in New Town.
They placed a national Belarusian flag in a block in the Cathedral Square to ban the regime of Aliaksander Lukaenko, and paid tribute to the victims of the regime and the volunteers who died in Ukraine.
Belarusians gathered in the square of the cathedral wearing white and red flags and two-color clothes.
Later, a march was organized to the Embassy of Belarus in Mindaugas Street. Candles were lit, portraits of the regime were placed, and songs about change were played.
Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine! Oh, Lithuania! As long as we are united, we are invincible.
During the rally, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaja said that two years ago, Belarusians were full of hope and could not imagine what price they would have to pay for their choice.
Undoubtedly, everyone has a relative who was arrested, beaten or is now in prison, like my husband Serhejus Cichanouskis, said S. Cichanouskaja.
According to her, for two years, Belarusians could not understand how degraded our militia and courts were, and they could not even imagine that Russia would declare war on Ukraine, and A. Lukaenka would give the territory of Belarus as a training ground, causing a danger to the sovereignty.
The leader of the opposition said that August 9 is also a day of Belarusian dignity, when the feeling of national pride was awakened in the country.
S. Cichanouskaja announced on Tuesday that during the opposition representative’s conference in Vilnius, it was decided to create a transitional Belarusian Government. Its members were Pavel Latuka, Aleksandar Azarov, Valery Kovalevsky, Valery Sachaikas.
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian tricolor was displayed in the Cathedral Square next to the Belarusian national flag.
According to Belarusians, they were forced to participate in the rally.
today is the 9th of August, two years after the election, one might say, after the tragedy in Belarus. You see how many Belarusians there are, and we are not alone. We have no choice, we are forced to be here, otherwise we would be in Okrestin (detention center in Minsk BNS) or another prison. here we can breathe freely and state our position, actor Sergejus Tolstikovas, who has been living in Lithuania since January, told BNS.
He said that he will come to Vilnius to film in the movie Okrestina and will not return home.
I filmed myself, there were clips, reports about the film, and I thought to myself that I better not go to Belarus, because there were already searches at home, the Interrogation Committee received reports, he said.
Reisier, artist Olga Titova came to Vilni to visit her sister in the summer when Russia started the war in Ukraine.
It wasn’t supposed to stay there when such terrible things were happening. We do not agree that bombs will fly into our territory in Ukraine, she said.
The woman claimed to BNS that she felt a threat that she could be dealt with.
Everything goes like this there, they say: let’s go, we’ll talk, and the mobs don’t play anymore. It was summer, April all the time. It’s terrible, O. Titova.
Her sister Julija Titova has been living in Lithuania for four years, studying at the European Humanitarian University.
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