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The launch of the Viktor Medvedchuk criminal case has raised many questions – both to how the probe was initiated and to those who hadn t started it long ago. But here s another important one. How many Ukrainian prisoners can be exchanged for Medvedchuk?
Actually, the answer is simple: none. After all, it s only Ukrainians held in Russia and in the occupied territories who are interested in such a swap. Others simply won t go for it.
For the Russian president it s not nepotism that s important, but Medvedchuk s ability to influence Ukrainian internal processes to pursue Russian interests
First. Moscow will not be blowing its cover so recklessly. Through Vladimir Putin s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin has already stated that Medvedchuk and everything connected with him is about Ukrainian internal affairs. And Russia, he went on to claim, has never interfered in Ukraine s affairs at all. Let s leave the second part of the comment to the
13:35, 06.01.21 Politics 600
The leaked tapes from the former Belarus KGB chief Vadim Zaitsev s office suggest that the Lukashenko regime may have been involved in the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet in Ukraine.
Lukashenko has for 20 years already been accused of the alleged involvement in the killing of Sheremet s colleague Dmitriy Zavadsky (he had been abducted just before he was supposed to meet with Sheremet). Rumors about the so-called death squads in Belarus first span in the late 1990s, when Lukashenko s main opponents at the time – Zakharenko, Gonchar, and Krasovsky – went missing one after another. Under Lukashenko s rule, other politicians died as well, under strange circumstances. Among them was Gennady Karpenko (known, among other things, for the attempt to initiate Lukashenko s impeachment in Parliament).