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again a welcome to spotlight the interview show aarti. today my guest on the program. which i've ridden the news yesterday that a man has bought thirty two refrigerators and brought the show the problem is the severe financial crisis in russia that's turning into no overall economic crisis at least it may turn into such a crisis prices are skyrocketing nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow people are buying all they can the country desperately needs cash injections from the outside can this economic situation influence the isolated political regime and they will be talking about it to the former leader of the country the first

president of independent. which. the currency crisis and ministers pred panic among the population if you will have been allowed to paint the us dollars and you're a natural and tourist services perceived as a recognition of the defeat of the russian ruble in this situation presents. made a statement he could release political prisoners many analysts said he was trying to bargain financial aid from the west but to do with mr bush in his political rivals was sentenced to long prison terms the crackdown on the opposition leaders has made the aid from the i.m.f. virtually impossible still can receive a one billion dollar tranche from russia but could only do so if. it's the same solution is finding himself in a very shaky situation if he doesn't find a way to stabilize the feverish national economy he may lose the grip of the country has been ruling by the strong hand during the last seventeen years. so this was a good day mrs coach. thanks very much for coming to our show it's an honor to have

you here today we will be discussing the situation valorous it is a dire situation that russians are very concerned about and. why is there is facing this crisis today some people certain media and kremlin sources say that the main reason for it was that. the government a lot of money into the russian economy in the run up to the elections was that the support of the. koreas this crisis these are all illegitimate president's fault because surely the cash injection support his fall to you lied to russia europe is in his own people on television and on the rear he was also started quite some time ago a very long time ago. absolute cowher absolutely. such people don't care about democracy and elections any longer. and he's this way

because at least obsessed with power and that is the main recently but he's already illegitimate president i say illegitimate because he was never elected he lost to the latest elections. he completely subdued everyone he worked with turning them into complexes and what the people of belarus had to suffer. i wanted to say bill russians but i'd rather go with the people of bill or to boy just sounding like a nationalist says it all to us that well with nevertheless the outcome of the last year's presidential election is still made imo the major reason for the current devastating economic situation in the country here is this report from spotlight. when he was running for his fourth consecutive term last year who question this. nothing to ensure success one of the scarabs was

a suited percent increase in wages extravagance might have added to a shank as popularity but it didn't help the country's economy which only went from bad to worse position never trusted beneficial results of the presidential vote the night they were announced thousands of people went down in the streets in minsk to protest the location of his reelection and the supremacy of the rally were dispersed by the police more than six hundred protesters were arrested the mass dungeons of the valorous opposition during the election were harshly criticized a broad is by death dozens of protesters accused of when i was in the rally i've been given prison sentences the e.u. and the us condemned the repressions and introduced sanctions against our rooms they can all make pressure combined with shame because it struck again for your actions spending of eventually led to the financial crisis this week the bellers

currency was more than a third eighteen into the pre-election wage increase those was granted as three billion dollars on from the eurasian economic community a grouping of english soviet republics that's considered no more than temporary relief did fiscal and monetary reforms are needed because the economy still mostly been run in a soviet style the first time in the seventeen years president lukashenko has been in power and finds himself under severe pressure both internationally and at home with some trials of the opposition leaders combined with the current financial turmoil make the prospect of public unrest ever more real and by our rules. this brutal mr should have each you just said look i shan't go has lost the latest elections. gordon could be opposition. as he claims he won it december nineteenth

saw mass protest against the election dragging we're going to eat for the next day and courts have started handing out guilty verdicts one after another day after day i think thirty people were convicted in total fully almost all opposition leaders were sentenced to time in jail some of them got suspended sentences sim didn't does this mean there is nobody left in the bell or who can protest against the who was that everybody went to go and you know they had their saying during the war you can't change it if we want the same is true today you can't jail everyone don't go to jail the best there are people also you have to realize that the russian opposition isn't really nominal because the real opposition i mean like the want to have in the west or like you have in russia our parliamentary opposition was wiped out it was they had those who were the people who had the courage to rise up

against the legal regime against state terrorism yes you're right here really. quite hard but still i think we have enough people. to transform it with simple and improve the overall situation in belarus. this is coach minsk saw a terrible terrorist attack in april it was a terrible tragedy but immediately after it occurred people started saying that look i shan't go there's always acted as a shrewd politician and used to strengthen his own political standing and to weaken the opposition but do you think that's true. he said straight away that it would only be the opposition who could turn its just war which was proved not to be the thickly. but if you know but it was and this

only because they were real professionals only investigating. our police are too stupid and busy battering of civilians if we did so why did she russians and israeli investigators. and they conducted a quality investigation when it turned out not only culprits who were involved with the opposition. shank of course will still claim it was the opposition's fault now he blames old earlier attacks on them but at the moment but this i think was done by other people than those who investigated this said taffy so whenever things get difficult he lives and you know brought his son to the explosion site even before the bodies were removed every child has to be protected from seeing such horror but you brought his son there sure everybody how much you curious about the bill are russian people and the victim so the attack you're saying look we're

sending is a bad thought there and urgent presidency is strong words like stupid no i said other people or stupid is going to. why are you still not in jail. well. you see i know what kind of person look he is. so i never do anything that can land being present at the level of that nevertheless i'm still the most persecuted man in the biller it's. now can you see those people are not stupid if this special benefit attire is see for my services to the people of the bellary it's only the amounts to fifty cents a month to look at the what little bit it used to be a dollar but now it's just fifty cents with so what don't you think this is stupid i was the poverty line well even if you are ready to live in poverty you still have to spend a couple of dollars a day are in employment benefit is twelve or thirteen dollars which is also

a joke up there so your pension is less than the unemployment benefits you did yes and less than the minimum pension but that's just and benefit for my special services to the people of bellary so what do you call a man who prepares such a bill if not stupid well they're not actually stupid but they have to work in such a way to be able to say on the boss if you're stupid and he would be right well another reason you're free must be that lucas. doesn't see you as a political rival when you question was well i think it is because i'm a lloyd biding citizen of my teachers and i observe even the e.d.o.t. clause that we have in this day so he can suffer criticism you know he can take it when you know why aren't you present. on story about who is not an educated man. i can be more delicate when i criticize seem then he's

when he talks about garage or the ukrainian president i don't call him names i'm just saying he's a not very educated man and i have evidence. just to back it up this gets going he wards someone would be france's karina ward and says karina strolled around saying . you know sgrena died well she hundred fifty years before the city was even founded what do we call a man who says such thing sort of says. the former president. well it. will be better off to take those breaks and stay with us we'll be back here in this room and they tell me that. i am.

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dot com. welcome back to spotlight i'll bring art in just a reminder that my guests here on the show today. the former leader the first president of the republic of belarus. mr cisco which we have already discussed the difficult economic situation that belarus has going through developed and the devaluation of the belorussian ruble there what has the financial crisis and the devaluation of the bell russian ruble hit the bottom yet by no means all the experts agree that they should have evaluated the russian herbal boy for more than fifty six percent while the prices keep growing off course they will through a couple of people in jail naturally they'll blame it all on them and all the

trusts the nation on television accusing them of all the hardships that people of dollars have to endure it will all be a bundle of lies. but there are a lot of people in russia who admired that the russian economic model where they had enough goodies for that model use completely. but you know it and i can prove it they deal with them because i consider this unless the russian ruble and a bill are russian ruble both gain from the saga of herbal. moreover we had a denomination to increase their roubles value by ten but today a russian ruble is worth three hundred roubles. this means delarue says currency has depreciated thousand times compared to the russian or. not just to solve your turtle. i also know that we didn't have a black tuesday which our economy never defaulted but it was

a gradual depreciation which the patient people of belarus have endured thank you how can we call an economy that slaughters its own currency like that a success i don't know where you find academics who are willing to praise that system. look at how the theft and the people's lives thanks to luka shan't go but miller who's as one of the lowest life expectancy rates in europe. is this the districts he's completely supported yes i was adept conference today and if you look at the official figures of the statistics committee they say that we are flourishing our life is greed apparently and this is served by the media to the naive russian audience russian journalists who come to look at it to get it present believe information about how beautiful life and there is says the year is take anti-crisis fund is going to lend those three billion dollars they think that will

help the economy it will help but not for long the money will be used to sustain the repressive machine and grab down the opposition forces are stupid law enforcers are very well paid what europeans have already realised where the money goes so we won't see any money from them left out of. your country men belorussians how are they reacting to the economic shock that the country is going through with. well they're used to this sort of thing. is i already told you bill or use is an interpreter chill state of shock our currency has depreciated by t. you thousand times was this in the paper as you know it the way you put nothing of this is in the papers and people is to write about lethal wainaina for example and they tell us look they're only used seventy percent of their cultivated land or is collected forms used all of it. what they don't say though is that lethal when is able to cover all its needs using always seventy percent of the winnie and produces

more green than ever we don't have free media just tries speaking to a television journalist as we're talking now over media's monopolized semi-independent self censored newspaper seven circulation of fifty thousand a week and at the same time we get two million copies of the soviet a bill or is telling us that the president is a saint and we've never had a better leader and that we shouldn't look for anything better he's lickspittle riders will drive you mad or is infected with the serve all mentality is people are actually no longer bill or russians their location is hinged. well whatever you call it servility or whatever the fact is that people are voting for a look at what you know they're not but most of them support. nothing of the sort i say this time and again no civilized country has recognized these elections because the votes were not counted the people simply can't imagine the scale of the

fraud show think what you we're talking about people in europe do you know what sort of letters guillory serai it's to be european parliament. they say we have seen you use three commissioners to disperse demonstrations. but when we used water cannons and police baton to gain civilians would you condemn our actions. that's another lie but you wouldn't because the police was obviously just trying to beat people into submitting to this monstrous government that has been feeling office for sixteen years and look where it has broad deloris i've heard that one of the reasons behind the opposition's defeat. is tough measures of course question. is that none of the opposition candidates have so far forward a solid program best they could come up with was. better this is

entirely wrong here are confusing two things and nine presidential candidates who are united by a common desire to change the political system is in order to do that they would have to get location gado the way that it was there a common goal aside from that they programs were completely different look at sunny spring for example i was in his team and his program was great the primary objective was to change the political system this doesn't mean doing the same as. those very pro european is not quite but we could never reach up to europe the objective is to liberalize the economy going to do we can't save the economy without a free market the current polluter ships as free market can lead to anything and in a sense i agree surely yes well for a state in which pillars use according to the constitution that we do need

of government control over the market how do you agree with the notion that the regime can only be defeated in the single candidate is nominated by all opposition parties no one work and no i can't agree with that astrid she was right that if we had a single candidate it would be allowed very little air time and media attention when we had been on the other hand who all agree that the political system needs to be changed and that was great as a way to make noise but not to win but they did it with a good look at the last in the six polling stations where the voting was monitored according to exit polls at other polling stations he lost as well and he could have collected thirty two percent of the most. with the margin of error off seven or eight percent efficient if you only would look at the other seventy percent would still have to be split between nine candidates which leads to

a runoff and which only new candidate can win. those son has been getting more and more media attention lately and people started speculating that look at the might be trying to make him his successor. do you believe that's possible there with the one. yeah well i know this boy's mother and i don't think he can be raised right to become a good president because he's essentially raised without a mother. with the so i don't believe in this theory it's focused at the same time i'm sure he would like this to happen all of them maybe a little coke yes it was a last question uprisings against all three tarion regimes seem to be the zeitgeist today i was initially taken into account events in north africa is this if it's in belarus no well it was you know those completely isolated and unaffected well what

i think is this with bill or suffer a heavier casualties in world war two than any other country or a thousand people and we lost more people than anybody due to k.g.b. requires souls and we had behavior casualties in the afghan war perhaps it's time to stop using our system can afford or we will find it peaceful way out of this situation because this bigotry cannot contain iot as law itself smart people and we will find a way to revive our economy and make it competitive i say but thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that great guest on the show today was then this last kid the first president or defender of the public. spotlight will be back with more if we can call fallen off the island in and out for help and then they are to meet. take a listen to.

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