Russia’s top spy was forced to explain the gravity of mass protests in Belarus to its embattled President Alexander Lukashenko. The explosive claim comes from a foreign policy expert with close ties to Moscow’s diplomatic service.
The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, was dispatched to Minsk for talks with President Lukashenko, in late October, as the rallies entered their third month. The unrest began in August after the opposition refused to accept the results of a presidential election which is widely believed to have been rigged. Speaking to Russian news agency TASS on Tuesday, Vladimir Zharikhin, Deputy Director of the CIS Institute shed light on how Naryshkin allegedly urged Lukashenko to take the situation seriously.
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