Age And Health Let Lukashenko Down Again

The press office has to cut video and conjure up photos.

Recently, "Salidarnasts" wrote about how Lukashenko, who is in the habit of accusing Belarusians of laziness, spent this summer. It turned out not in favor of the latter. And, apparently, the fall only confirms our summer observations.

Age and health obviously affect the working schedule and choice of priorities of the ruler. Having traveled to Gorodets and the poultry farm in Soligorsk, he took a break before the CIS summit in Dushanbe.

It is understandable. It is not a long way, the years are not the same. So I have to refuse from personal participation in "Dozhynki", though earlier I went on stage of regional festivals in Mosty, Volozhin, Korma, Polotsk and Mikashevichy.

And the pauses between trips around the country and meetings are getting longer and longer. But even this does not always help. The press service has to cut the video of Lukashenko hardly descending from the airplane, to work on his photo.

By the way, the ruler of Belarus is not on the video with the guests of the summit walking among the traditional fruit and vegetable installations. He only once glimpsed in the photo of Emomali Rakhmon's press service.

The ruler is obviously aware of what is happening to him. But he is not a man who puts the interests of the country above his own. That's why we hear his stories about "excellent analyses" and two hours of sports a day - against the background of his frequent disappearances from public space for a day or two in the middle of the working week.

Artyom Sinitsyn, "Salidarnasts".

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