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Lukashenka: If It Were Not For Nobel Prize, I Would Be Unaware Of Alexievich

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The dictator complained that he would have to read all the books of the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Svetlana Alexievich.

A day before the Russian pop composer Viktor Drobush was awarded the Medal of Francysk Skaryna, and the unexpected speech about “a bucket of mud”, allegedly poured on Belarus by the Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Aliaksandr Lukashenka met with representative of diplomatic missions in Minsk. Together they planted a Tree of Peace to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the II World War end and foundation of the UN. During an informal conversation Swedish ambassador Martin Oberg congratulated Belarus and its leader on the Nobel Prize, Euroradio informs.

“Only on this?” Lukashenka asked, and calmed Mr. Oberg immediately: “Do not worry, I am joking.”

The Swedish Ambassador tried to clarify that it the event was widely celebrated in Sweden. The prize “stirred our public”, Lukashenka replied:

"Everyone started thinking about that Nobel Prize and Lukashenka’s attitude to it. To tell you the truth, I would not know much about her but for the prize.

They say that she is an oppositionist, and I haven’t heard about that. So don’t believe in such things, she isn’t. She just has her own opinion. And it existed in the Soviet times, too. Everyone can have their own opinion and express it. She did not call anyone to barricades…”

“Well, I also need to read her books,” Martin Oberg confessed modestly.

“There are not so many of them, – Lukashenka reassured him. – I can present these five books to you to read them. You can read well in Russian, can’t you? Uladzimir Uladzimiravich (addressing Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makei), please present the latest edition to the ambassador on my behalf.”

And Drobysh’s concert was appointed for the following day.

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