Information war goes on

After Saakashvili, Belarusian Channel One plans to show President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers. Moreover, a state-run newspaper prints extracts from Nemtsov’s anti-Putin report.

The Belarusian Channel One says a big interview with Latvian President Valdis Zatlers is to be aired in the evening July 22. We remind that President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili has recently given an anti-Russian interview to the TV channel.

The Russian press regards this as a desire to “give floor to all anti-Russian presidents”.

“Dzmitry Kastitsyn, a correspondent of a special subdivision of the Belarusian State TV and Radio Company “TV News Agency”, presents on Thursday the vision of democracy and independence protection from “imperial attacks” of the republic where neo-Nazism has become a cornerstone of the state ideology. The Belarusian state ideological department seems to give floor to all anti-Russian presidents of the post-Soviet republics,” news agency is quoted by a source who informed about the interview.

“The main thing that symbolizes this step of Minks propagandists is escalation of information and propaganda position of Minsk that has clearly anti-Russian character,” the source concludes. “This is an attempt to convince the people of Belarus it is Moscow, not the Belarusian top politicians, who is to blame for all problems.”

“Respublika”, a newspaper of the Council of Ministers of Belarus, publishes an article “Neighbours as Seen by Experts” that quotes Russian oppositionist Boris Nemtsov reports “Putin. Results. 10 Years”. In his pamphlet Nemtsov reveals the corruptive essence of the Russian authorities at the highest level. The Russian authorities are making their best to prevent 10 million copies of the report from going public.

“Unfortunately, many barbaric things have become a norm in the Russian society. Homeless children is a norm, whole villages suffering from alcoholism is a norm, Roman Abramovich, whose activity is so “useful” for people, with his new luxurious yacht is a also norm suitable for Putin-Medvedev tandem.

The political elite of Russia has seen more changes among all former Soviet countries since the USSR collapse. For example, such notion as ‘social protection’ has become an anachronism. Other concepts have appeared: glamourr, protection racket, offshore, dough, oligarch… If you’ve got dough and protection racket, you are a person. If you don’t have, you are nobody,” a “Respublika” correspondent writes.