“President is an idiot, and his children are insane”
- 9.04.2009, 13:40
Alyaksandr Lukashenka was offended by Russian TV channels. “They have gone so far as to ‘chop’ a 5-year old boy all over with a meat-axe,” he complained to Leningrad region governor.
The Belarusian leader believes that charges that Belarus has stopped broadcasting of a number of Russian TV channels at its territory groundless.
“They are again hyping the topic that we have allegedly closed TV channels. NTV is working; ORT works on the same TV Channel with ONT. The channels that should be present, they are present, and they are broadcasted,” A. Lukashenka stated during the meeting with governor of Leningrad Oblast Valery Serdyukov, Interfax informs.
The Belarusian leader noted: “try to name at least one our channels which is transmitted in Russia”. “We have created a satellite TV channel for providing economic interests of the two states. We have been allowed to enter some cable networks, and in Moscow we were demanded to pay 45 mln dollars, in order to be allowed to get into these networks,” he stated.
Speaking about the situation around broadcasting of some Russian TV channels in Belarus, A. Lukashenka stated that in Russia different people started “flying at us, they reported to the Russian president that Lukashenka started an offensive against Russia”. “Nobody went on any offensive. I do not see any threat in that. We have agreed with the Russian president, that heads of administrations are to address these issues smartly,” A. Lukashenka said.
And besides, as said by him, it turns out that “Belarus is not presented in the media space of Russia”.
“And if it is presented there, then [they say] that the president is an idiot, and his children are insane, they are swindlers and adventurers. They have gone so far as to ‘chop’ this 5-year old boy (A. Lukashenka’s youngest son) all over with a meat-axe. Is it a right attitude to a leader of the state?” A. Lukashenka asked.
“Have you heard at least one harsh epithet about Medvedev or Putin here? No. Even our oppositionists with frostbitten heads, when they start writing something (bad about Russia), we immediately crush that in the bud,” the Belarusian leader stated.
Besides, he turned attention to the fact that “our certain activists, who hate guts Russia, open doors to Russian offices by their legs”.
Lukashenka: “If somebody would say to you that I depart from Russia, spit in his face”
The Belarusian ruler assured the governor of Leningrad Oblast Valery Serdyukov of his readiness “to defend our Russia”.
“We need more definiteness and transparency in these relations. It is important for us, especially at this stage,” Lukashenka stated in Minsk.
Addressing the Russian governor, Lukashenka noted: “If somebody would say to you that some tendencies have emerged in Belarus to depart from Russia, just spit in this person’s face, though it may sound rude”.
The Belarusian leads assure that “we do not see our future without Russia; we are predestined to live with Russia”. “I want you to know that we would fight for our Russia, in order not to lose it. I think that Russia is not indifferent to Belarus’ fate, too,” he said.
He noted that “everything takes shape in hard times. “If we would have sit to a round table in the framework of the former Union and specified how to cooperate, if we made Russian ruble the regional currency, then there would have been no crisis,” Lukashenka said.
The Belarusian ruler stressed that “there are no opponents of our rapprochement, of our closest integration among the leadership of Belarus”. “If I make statements about the Belarusian-Russian relations, I am speaking explicitly about that. I stick to such a position both in the CIS and the EurAsEC, and especially in our bilateral relations,” Lukashenka noted.
He believes that “we shouldn’t conceal anything from each other.” “If Russians can say about me in a non-public manner, I speak publicly about the problems that exist in our relations,” Lukashenka said.
Commenting on the reports appeared in Russian media after his visit to Homel region, Lukashenka noted that “the greatest problem, which by the way contradicts the official policy of Russia, is that you have started to close your market”. Reminding the results of London G-20 summit, he stated that “in this period the twenty states shouldn’t close their markets and thus destroy the developing economies”.
“If 80% of the world economy would be closed, including the Russian one, it would be difficult for such export-orientated states as Belarus,” Lukashenka noted.