How the West should deal with Russia.
Rasa Juknevičienė's @RJukneviciene, former Minister of Defense of Lithuania (2008-12) take.
"The most important is not to be afraid, despite that Russia is a nuclear power, despite that tensions are on the table."
@RJukneviciene "Don't feel guilty. We are not guilty. NATO is not an offensive structure."
@RJukneviciene Putin's tactics, long-term, @RJukneviciene's take.
"Kremlin is using attacks below Article 5 all the time to create low tension wars against democracies. Because for democracies it's very dangerous to live in these tensions."
Previously Mr Malakhouski has spent 3 days at notorious Okrestino jail in #Minsk. He fled Belarus right after his release. A criminal case is opened against him by Lukashenka regime for an alleged attempt to hit an official with his car. Poland has issued him a humanitarian visa
Transcript of the leaked recording of the conversation between Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and 2 Belarus sport officials: the head of the Belarus athletics team Yuri Moisevich and Belarus athletics team representative Artur Shumak.
Full text.
Shumak: Well, we have a situation here. It must be resolved somehow. There is no way around it. And we've got the following instruction: You’re flying home today.
Just let me finish and don’t rush to any conclusions. The situation is that there is a big ask: You come home — you don’t write anything anywhere, and you don’t make any comments. Let me convey to you word for word what I've been told, just to avoid any [misunderstanding] later.
#Belarus. An anonymous telegram channel has published an unverified record without specifying its sources of the conversation which purportedly took place between Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and 2 Belarus sport officials.
The information - thought, uncorroborated - seems important.
Once again, the recording is unverified, but if true then it appears that the head of the BY athletics team in Tokyo, Yuri Moisevich, while trying to to persuade Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to withdraw from the Olympics, contemplates her possible suicide by jumping out of the window
EXCERPT FROM THE RECORDING.
Humble yourself. Don't show off your pride. Your pride tells you, "No" and starts devils cycle, and then the pride starts to control you, understand? That's how people end up in suicide, unfortunately.
Yesterday [July 31], the head coach of the national team, Yuri Moisevich, came to me. He suggested that I refuse to participate in the 200-meter run - to say that I have an injury, to shoot and fly home.
At the moment, he said, they want to remove me only from the Olympics, but if I refuse [to drop from the tournament] and if I run a distance of 200 meters, then I will be removed from the national team, deprived of work and, perhaps, there will be some other then the consequences