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Did Lukashenko Win by Duping the People?

RosBusinessConsulting, September 10, 2001

The victory of Alexander Lukashenko results from his policies of duping the people. This is the opinion of the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko, expressed in an interview with RBC on the results of the presidential elections in Belarus on September 9, 2001.

Ivanenko also indicated that violations [of law] might have happened during the presidential elections in Belarus. However, the policies of manipulating the people played a key role in the outcome of the elections. “I don’t think that in a union with Belarus headed by Lukashenko Russia can achieve serious results, as he [Lukashenko] has only one task – preservation of his personal power,” thinks Ivanenko.

He also said that the situation where a number of Byelorussian and Russian mass media pictured the Byelorussian opposition as the “enemy of the people” aroused serious concern. “History demonstrates that such treatment and manipulation of people who think differently cannot lead to anything good,” noted Ivanenko.

At the same time, Ivanenko pointed out that the joint candidate from the opposition Vladimir Goncharik acted befittingly in the conditions created in the country. According to Ivanenko, the Russian mass media, which mostly supported Lukashenko, greatly influenced the outcome of the presidential elections in Belarus.

Ivanenko also thinks that the West would probably not implement any policies aimed at isolating Belarus, but added that: “no one will pretend that Belarus is a normal European country.”

RosBusinessConsulting, September 10, 2001

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