Dictatorship runs to a pond with its face distorted
73- Iryna Khalip, "Novaya gazeta"
- 30.04.2010, 9:10
Secret services will hack e-mails of journalists. And the results would be offered by Lukashenka to the Russian Vice Premier for him to be "knocked out".
On Wednesday morning I went to the police department with a plastic basket in my bag. The day before I received a phone call and was told that I must come and be familiarized with the results of the expert examination of the notebook which had been seized from me during the search on March 16. As the examination is finished, it means the notebook would be returned, and I would not ask others to quarter upon them and work at their computers. I was so glad that I would place the notebook in the plastic bag and return to my abandoned working place. On teh same day three other Belarusian journalists, Natallya Radzina, Svyatlana Kalinkina and Maryna Koktysh were to come to the police department. I do not know whether they had mesh bags with them, but I didn't need my bag at all.
The results of the expert examination it was written that the expert failed to restore all filed removed by me. And he failed to read all the information, and in general he took displeasure that police investigators had forgotten to take an adaptor of the notebook when they seized it, and he could not switch on the notebook as the battery was down.That maximally hindered the wrok of the expert.
But still he has managed! And he has made several conclusions which are important for the security ofthe state. Firstly, my notebook can be used to access Internet (did they need a month and a half to find out that?). Secondly, 264 files with key words have been found. And the key words were mentioned there as well: "dictatorship", "arrested", "the European Parliament", "to survive", "speaker". How could this nonsense be connected together? "The speaker of the European parlioament survived after an arrest"? "Dictatorship of the European Parliament arrested?" Or maybe "speaker arrested, the dictatorship survived"? I do not know. But it is not my job to form the word "eternity" from the letters "a", "s", "s", and let law-enforcers break heads over this puzzle themselves.
In the computer of Natalya Radzina, for instance, 3,000 files with the word "dictatorship" have been found. It is interestring, whether the court would take in cnsideration the frequency of the word use? If so, Radzina is to be imprisoned for at least 100 years more than me.
And the notebook was sent to undergo additional examination. It is written in the statement that no experts have other tasks: to find out passwords to my email, to find out the full list of contacts, to find out with whom I talk via ICQ and Skype. That is to take under control my private space, which is de jure protected even by Lukashenka's laws. The same concerns my colleagues. On the way back I bought popatoes, for the plastic bag not to carry the plastic bag empty.
By the way, as for potatoes... It seems to me that I can guess which contacts and by whose order are to be detected on our computers. In early April Alyaksandr Lukashenka promised Russian Vice Premier Shuvalov to show results of expert examinations of our computers, which would "knock him down". And recently Lukashenka charged us with working for the Kremlin for Western money: "All of these journalists of pro-Western orientation, they live and work for Western grants, but they work for Russia as well. Today they say and recommend the Russian government: demand Lukashenka to leave the Eastern Partnership. That's the nature of these people, they recommend Russia how to destroy the western vector of our policy". Is it clear now?
Lukashenka's concerns are to grow now, when there is a break-up in relations of Minsk and Moscow, and one canot hide from oil duties under a blanket, as Kurmanbek Bakiyev is already hiding under that blanket. It is possible that head officers of secret services come to Lukashenka with sad faces and report: "Mr Lukashenka, our dear Commander-In-Chief, bad news! There is a decision in the Kremlin to remove you. To exchange you even for a sack of popatoes." And when he starts to blame them for being not too swift and failing to disclose the Kremlin conspiracy, the KGB men would answer: "We are not to blame, riffraff journalists are heating up tensions!"
So traces of western money are to be searched in our computers ("Hereby we notify you that one million dollars have been sent to your current account. Best wishes, CIA") and emails of Medvedev and Putin, to whom we send injurious advises, code signs and keywords.