Mass media: Medvedev to declare boycott against Belarusian dictator

The informational war between Russia and Belarus has come to mutual accusations by the governments.

Last Friday, answering the reproach of Dmitry Medvedev that Minsk had failed to stand by its promise to recognize breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Alyaksandr Lukashenka charged the Russian side with “unconscionability”. In response the Kremlin promised to quote Lukashenka’s promises to recognize the republics, and also other interesting statements of the Belarusian leader, NEWSru.com writes.

The result of such an exchange of amiabilities could become a boycott by Medvedev against Lukashenka at the upcoming CSTO summit in Yerevan on August 20-21, “Kommersant” writes. Russian mass media have also stepped up the informational war: a day before a third film from “Godbatka” series was screened. In the documentary Lukashenka’s diagnosis “mosaic psychosis” was announced.

We remind that the reason for attacks against Lukashenka was a reproach by Medvedev in an interview on August 2 that Lukashenka had sworn a solemn oath at the CSTO summit in 2008 to announce recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia “in the shortest possible time”. Last week Lukashenka stated that he did not want to discuss this topic, but had to as “Medvedev had simply torn some things from the context unscrupulously”.

As stated by Lukashenka, he did not promise to do so, but simply said that it was not a problem. However he indicated that in this connection Belarus would face about a dozen problems in relations with the US, the EU and the CIS. As said by Lukashenka, he offered Russia to share these problems, however it did not want or could not want do that.

In response Russian president’s aide Sergei Prikhodko stated that the Kremlin is ready to publish not only the transcript from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) session with statements of Alyaksandr Lukashenka about readiness to recognize independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but to make public other statements of Lukashenka which would be rather interesting both to the Belarusian and international public.

As noted by experts, the attack against Medvedev was the first one by Lukashenka, that is why the response of the Kremlin was extremely harsh. Earlier he made critical comments on activities of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin only. He charged him with hindering military cooperation of Moscow and Minsk, and with exerting pressure on the Belarusian authorities.