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Roman Protasevich admits role in 2020 protests in Minsk in TV interview
Direct translation of the article.News article by Russian military journalist Aleksandr Kots [KP] Surely the opposition will say that Roman Protasevich was pressured, tortured, pumped with "truth serum" or promised the "hostage" to release his girlfriend. But he looked quite relaxed, and the knight, ready for the sake of his beloved to take upon himself the assassination of Kennedy, clearly does not pull. It is evident that at times he spoke quite willingly, enthusiastically surrendering his recent comrades-in-arms. Apparently, old grievances spoke in him. And the reaction of the opposition is not interesting to him: “I am here and now, and I am ready to do everything in order to correct my mistakes. I followed my idea and my beliefs. The more I tried not to poke my nose into my own business, not to think about where and what money was coming from, what special services were influencing, the worse everything became ... ”It is unlikely that the words of the person who was brought to the television studio from the detention center can be called a confession, but he really did tell a lot. Not opening, however, America. On admission of guilt “… I was one of those people who urged people to go out on the street on August 9 last year. When all the charges were brought against me, I immediately pleaded guilty under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus “Organization of massive illegal actions”. I fully admitted. I realized that the appeals that I was publishing were the reason for what began, in fact, uncontrollable riots. And for three days Minsk lived in chaos ... " Coordination of protests "It was the main coordinating chat of street protests, of the entire information war. Among the participants were Stepan Putilo, Rudik, Tadeusz Dichan, Franak Vecherko, who handed out assignments, Motolko, Artyom Shraibman, Palchis, Dyushkevich, Bogdanovich, Anastasia Rogatko, Victoria Palchis, Evgeny Malakhovsky, who was in charge of the courtyard chats. There we made the main decisions - where the next action will take place, what kind of information agenda we should keep. One chat served as the main coordinating tool of the entire information war and street protests ... " More at the link (In Russian) Posted by: badanov 2021-06-04 |
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