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The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus, as a result of a special operation, suppressed the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, who has dual citizenship of the United States and the Republic of Belarus, and Alexander Iosifovich Feduta, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who were planning to carry out a military coup in Belarus according to a worked-out scenario of “color revolutions” with the involvement of local and Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the physical elimination of President A. Lukashenko…
It is noteworthy that the oppositionists have chosen the day of the Victory Parade in Minsk on May 9th this year as the date of the military coup“
by Tyler Durden
Russian and Belarusian state sources are
alleging that a major assassination and coup attempt of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been thwarted by security services, which has further been dubbed in state media as an armed insurrection attempt which may have had the backing of the United States.
However, details surrounding the alleged plot remain murky and it doesn t appear that anything actually close to an insurrection ever got off the ground. Instead,
multiple Belarussian officials were reportedly arrested on vague suspicions of treasonous plotting. Russia s FSB is also widely reported to have detained two conspirators in Moscow for their association with the plot.
Makei warns West against attempts to stage revolutions in Belarus
Vladimir Makei. An archive photo
MINSK, 12 April (BelTA) – Western partners should not repeat mistakes of the past, i.e. try to foment revolutions in Belarus, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs.
The journalist asked the minister to comment on the conduct of Belarus Western neighbors, which is no longer seen just as interference in the country s domestic affairs, but consistent efforts to destabilize the situation. This pertains, in particular, to the actions of Poland and Lithuania.
“We have never said or done anything to undermine our relations with other states, first of all, with our neighbors. We just have to respond to those destructive statements and concrete actions that are being taken in relation to Belarus by our Western neighbors,” Vladimir Makei noted.