people we see often some deloris accuse the country's leader alexander lukashenko fall played during recent presidential elections that cost the office its license and the always see chairman sees little hope mr bush angle can be talked into changing his mind but the lithuanian foreign minister drawn a sociable is optimistic about the fact economic sanctions can have a mains and he's also optimistic about the frozen conflict in trans am hoping something finally change for the better. minister welcome to the show thank you very much we'll spotlight my pleasure well. has assumed the chairmanship of the sea and one of the burning issues is the situation in neighboring neighboring to lithuania also of course to russia where the authorities have shut down the sea office what is your reaction to how we are going to act i doing to try to reopen the office of course it's our intention to the person. to reopen but we would like to. in this case the office would keep the same meaning for us but it will be this some content not just the creation but to be very frank i do not have very much hope

first though the opposition and deloris will be quote bashed in the head on life that stops the stabilizing the country that according to the country's president alexander lukashenko comments come just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk silly parsing called was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minutes because the polls closed in the country's presidential election in december more than six hundred protesters were arrested more than twenty including several presidential candidates face trial political analyst from russia's ria novosti news agency dimitri babich says lucas shank zero points on tightening the screws on dollars. what happened in december was unique because people were no seem terrorists and they were jailed for long time and the fact that the position activist was sentenced to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. trying to show everyone that he is serious about his promise to punish those in the eyes of some of the december what we need is for the west on the stand tha