let's bring in russia analyst constantine eggert in moscow now constantine do you see any strategy behind the way the president look at shake i was responding to these unprecedented protests well there is an instinctive strategy definitely and this is to basically buy time when he talks about the constitution of which she didn't speak of in 5 days ago he's talking about this and this discussions about something that will provide for a possibility of him to stay in power and i think that does he will find some support for that from mr putin when he spoke today to chancellor merkel and to the e.u. need a shout they all talked about dialogue and i think that there is a different understanding of dialogue in moscow in minsk on one side and berlin paris and brussels on the other what the e.u. means by dialogue is some kind of productive dialogue that will bring some kind of resolution and putin that look a single think the dollar is just a device for them to go on talking about something without releasing power and without actually changing something on the ground so there is a strategy where

correspondent constantine eggert has been speaking with the defeated presidential candidates in vilnius lithuania where she fled after the disputed election. the kind of scale. what do you think is going to happen in the coming days weeks and. we've seen massive demonstrations especially in this book not only as well we've seen alexander lukashenko being filmed by his press with with machine guns so he's showing that he's not going to leave. was going to happen i afraid it's going to be real violence. i have seen this medium and i can't even comment on it because it's awful but. you know our people have changed and i don't know what's going on to happen in there as days but i know what's real happen in the nearest future. people will not step away they walk up and they want you. and. the person who has separate is installed. people will not forgive him it almost for that anything about a situation that has happened after their actions at the same time the corporation counsel of the bill russian opposition as well as you you say that in the next coming hopefully free and fair elections a

correspondent constantine eggert spoke with her in vilnius lithuania where she fled after the election the hollow scale. what do you think is going to happen in the coming days weeks and. we've seen massive demonstrations especially in minsk but not only as well we've seen alexander lukashenko being filmed by his press with a machine gun so he's showing that he's not going to leave. was going to happen i'm afraid it's going to be real violence. i have seen this video and i can't even comment on it because it's awful but. you know our people have changed and i don't know what's going on to happen in there is days but i know what's real happen in the nearest future. people will not step away they walk up and they want you. their rose and. the person who has tepper way is the stalker some people will not forgive him people known for that anything about a situation that has happened after their actions at the same time the coronation council of the bill russian opposition as well as you you say that in the next coming hopefully free and fair elections anyone can take part so does that mean

it wants to introduce these sanctions as quickly as possible earlier we asked russia analyst constantine eggert what if any impact those sanctions might actually have. these people who are under the thumb of alexander lukashenko some of them for 1520 is know very well that they can be claimed persona non-grata 80 times in the west. it's very clear to me that this is a symbolic gesture that will have little or no effect on their loyalty to listen to look this is a regime which is wrong on a very very tight basis and these people are not people like russian oligarchs that limited his entourage the a much tighter controls by go so no surprises here. the e.u. foreign ministers in berlin also decided to prepare sanctions to limit turkey's ability to explore natural gas this is in response to a maritime dispute with greece in the eastern mediterranean tensions have been escalating in the region since turkey sent an exploration vessel under naval guard to begin drilling in disputed waters greece accuses on korea of illegal energy exploration france bolstered its military presence in the area in respon

correspondent constantine eggert has been speaking with the defeated presidential candidates in villages left you a me where she fled after the disputed election. the kind of scale. what do you think is going to happen in the coming days weeks and bill as we've seen massive demonstrations especially in this book not only as well we've seen alexander lukashenko being filmed by his press with machine gun so he's showing that he's not going to leave. was going to happen i afraid it's going to be real violence. i have seen this. continent comment because it's awful but. you know our people have changed and i don't know what's going on to happen in there as days but i know what's really happened in the nearest future. people will not step away they walk up and they want you. their rose and. the person who has separate stalker some people will not forgive him for that anything about this situation that has happened after their actions at the same time the correlation council of the bill russian opposition as well as you you say that in the next up coming hopefully free and fair elections anyon

of the presidential of vote to drawing praise from mistaken our sky i d w correspondent to constantine eggert has been speaking with the defeated presidential candidates in vilna.