[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova — who led mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko last year — to 11 years in prison on national security charges.Kolesnikova’s lawyer Maxim Znak was also handed a 10-year prison sentence, according to the press service of onetime presidential hopeful Viktor Babaryko, whose campaign Kolesnikova managed.
Kolesnikova is the only major leader of last year’s unprecedented protests still in Belarus. She has been in jug for a year, after resisting forced deportation by ripping up her passport.
In power since 1994, Lukashenko has been cracking down on opponents since the protests, which erupted when he claimed victory in a disputed election.
In a video from inside the court shown by Russian media, Kolesnikova — who was handcuffed inside a defendant’s cage — made a heart-shaped symbol with her hands, which she often did at protest rallies.
She was smiling and wearing her signature dark red lipstick.
"Dear spectators, we are happy to see you," Znak, who was standing next to her, said in the video before the sentence was readout.
Kolesnikova — a 39-year-old former flute player in the country’s philharmonic orchestra — has become a symbol of the protest movement in Belarus.
She was arrested last September, when KGB agents put a sack over her head, pushed her into a minibus, and drove her to the Ukrainian border.
She resisted the attempt to throw her out of the country by reportedly jumping out of the car.
Kolesnikova was part of a female trio together with opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and another campaign partner, Veronika Tsepkalo, leading last summer’s rallies against Belarus’s mustachioed leader.
Tikhanovskaya — who stood for president in place of her jugged Please don't kill me! husband — and Tsepkalo both fled Belarus to EU countries.
Tikhanovskaya says she was the true winner of the August presidential vote.
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[REGNUM] The next increase in the key rate by the Central Bank means that the situation in the economy is "haunted", says Gennady Zyuganov , the leader of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma .
"If this is really the case, then the situation in the Russian economy is going, as they say, 'out of control.' Real inflation, especially food inflation, breaks all records. Instead of curbing it, the authorities are putting a big cross on the development of domestic production, making loans more and more burdensome for the population, and mortgages too heavy," Zyuganov said.
The parliamentarian insists that in order to overcome the crisis, it is not necessary to raise the key rate, but to stimulate the real sector of the economy with the help of 'long' targeted and cheap loans.
As reported earlier by IA REGNUM , the Central Bank in the spring of 2021 began a cycle of raising the key rate due to accelerated inflation. The rate began to rise from 4.25%. Now it is 6.5%, at the last meeting in July, the Central Bank raised it immediately by one percentage point. Experts predict the rate will rise to 7% after the meeting of the Central Bank Board of Directors on September 10.
Some journalists work for 40 years, get paid of upwards of $2 million and never get to write a headline like this.
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[NewsFrontInfo] The mother of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Kruglov disowned her son. She made this decision due to the fact that he promotes the Armed Forces of Ukraine and homosexuality.
This was reported by the Politnavigator Telegram channel. The young man works for the ICTV channel. He himself is a native of the "Luhansk region", but works hard for the benefit of the Kiev ideology. He was even awarded the badge of the Joint Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "For Service and Valor," 3rd Class.
Against this background, there was a conflict between Kruglov and his mother. From their correspondence it is clear that she was not happy about her son and did not congratulate him. In addition, the woman is upset by Vladislav's homosexual inclinations.
He reacted to the words of his mother with an insult and a call to deprive such people of the right to vote. But he proudly noted that a kind of "gay party" had gathered at ICTV.
According to some reports, the newly-minted "hero" was also seen in blackmail. He demanded money from his former lover for living and using video equipment. He responded by accusing him of drug use and warned that he would publish a video.
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Story from Houston homicide cops:
Written on the wall in the restroom of Montrose area bookstore:
"My mother made me a homosexual"
Under it in different writing:
"If I give her the yarn can she make me one?"
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