Yauheny Lipkovich: Yakubovich needs mental treatment

Belarusian security services again showed their unprofessionalism.

Blogger Yauheny Lipkovich spoke to charter97.org about the dirt about Vladislav Baumgertner and Suleyman Kerimov published by Sovetskaya Belorussia, the newspaper of Lukashenka's administration.

“It is a hot war with taking hostages. Frankly speaking, I do not protests against the actions by the Belarusian authorities, though I don't like everything they do and their methods. They faced an attempt of a hostile takeover of Belaruskali and responded in they way they can,” the blogger thinks.

He underlined that the Belarusian authorities don't know how to react to such situation in they way common for market economies, so they arrested Uralkali CEO.

“Belarus already arrested the owner of a Cypriot company who was the director of Velcom mobile operator. He was set free two days later after Lukashenka had said he had no claims to him. I don't rule out that this CEO may be released without claims. Non-public mechanisms are likely to be used. Belarus usually loses war, because it cannot respond with market methods. We won't become richer due to the arrest,” Yauheny Lipkovich thinks.

The blogger says it's possible that the author of the dirt about Uralkali top managers and the article about the Polish-German plot published by Sovetskaya Belorussia after the 2010 election is the same officer of the security services.

“I used to work in a bank. I saw research notes from Lukashenka's administration. Someone paid for these identical documents. One shouldn't overestimate abilities of the security services. If two people wrote one and a half books edited by journalists it doesn't mean they can write,” the blogger is confident.

He is convinced that these persons acted unprofessionally:

“Let's remember Seventeen Moments of Spring series. It was an excellent propaganda tool. We all loved Stierlitz. What we see now is vulgar and ugly. I think Pavel Yakubovich should retire. Not just retire, but leave for Israel for mental treatment and pray for forgiveness of his sins. Look at Yancheuski, who is responsible for the press in Lukashenka's administration: Is he able to do anything?

Gibbon wrote in his famous The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that the light of human genius dies away in a dictatorship. It has happened in Belarus. We have nobody to order him to write this nonsense except for Charhinets.”