Hello, I'm Your Bomb

How the Belarusian ideologists entertain themselves.

The most amusing news of last week became the information from the Office of the Investigation Committee for Mahiliou region stating that "a criminal case under Art. 340 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus "a knowingly false report of danger" was filed against an Asipovichy resident of 1967 year of birth, belgazeta.by writes.

According to the investigators, this citizen is deputy chairman of the Asipovichi District Executive Committee Aliaksandr Shauliuha, who used to be in charge of ideological work, work with young people and the media. At the end of April, he called the police and said that the local KGB and District Office of Internal Affairs had been mined. No bombs, of course, were found, but the work of the departments was temporarily paralyzed. The joker now faces up 5 years of restraint.

"We assume that he was in a state of alcohol intoxication. But it is not final – the investigation is underway," – the Investigation Committee press service reports. Nasha Niva journalists tried to contact the ex-official, but he put the phone down, barely when he heard where the call was from.

This is not the first scandal involving fighters of the ideological front. At the end of 2016, the main ideologist of Partyzanski district of the capital Mikalai Petramovich was detained, he was at that time a deputy of the Minsk City Council from pro-government Communists – he borrowed money from people and went into hiding, having left his wife and two children.

In January 2013, the information got leaked to the press that the main ideologist of the State Control Financial Investigation Department Henadz Prohartsau was fired – according to unofficial information, the reason for the dismissal was a search in his apartment, during which the KGB officers discovered a US residence permit Green Card. "Many of us knew Prohartsau as the enemy of the United States and the West, so the presence of the Green Card became an unpleasant surprise for the State Control Committee," – the informed source told Tut.by.