They are all making full confessions and cooperating with the investigation, the State Security Committee representative stressed
MINSK, April 21. /TASS/. The investigation has officially indicted four detainees for taking part in a coup plot in Belarus to seize power, head of the investigation department at the State Security Committee (KGB) Konstantin Bychek said Wednesday. The four detained persons have been indicted under Part 1 of Article 357 of the [Belarusian] Criminal Code, plot to seize power in an unconstitutional way. They are all making full confessions and cooperating with the investigation, the service representative stressed.
Belarusian President Lukashenko announced on April 17 that opposition politician Grigory Kostusev, political analyst Alexander Feduta and lawyer Yuri Zenkovich had plotted an assassination attempt on him and his sons. He placed responsibility for the plot on US special services and US leaders. According to Chief of the Belarusian KGB Ivan T
One way to look at Belarus ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s
claim last week that he was the target of a US-backed coup and assassination attempt is that this is just the latest in a series of conspiratorial rants by an increasingly beleaguered dictator.
But as is often the case in the former Soviet Union, upon closer examination, there appears to be at least some method behind all the madness.
Lukashenka’s claim that the plot was approved “by the top political leadership” in the United States came just days after Russia’s Federal Security Service had arrested two Belarusians, including one with US citizenship, and
Commenting on the Russian leader’s statement on the absence of the West’s response to the preparations for a government coup in Belarus and plans for the assassination of the country’s leader, the expert noted that the West had reacted to that story in its own way after all
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April 20, 2021
Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Monday said it had expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow ordered a Ukrainian consul in Saint Petersburg to leave Russia, accusing him of trying to obtain sensitive information.
The expulsions come as tensions have soared between Russia and Ukraine in recent weeks, with Kiev accusing Moscow of massing troops on its border. Today the Ukrainian foreign ministry sent a note declaring persona non grata one of the advisers of the Russian embassy in Kiev, foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko told AFP. He must leave the territory of our state within 72 hours. On Saturday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had a day earlier detained a consul of Ukraine’s Consulate General in Saint Petersburg, Alexander Sosonyuk. The domestic intelligence agency said Sosonyuk had been caught red-handed during a meeting with a Russian national as he sought to receive classified information. Sosonyuk was ordered to leave
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