Sewing factory in Mahilou hangs out Russian flag on Independence Day

Two flags, one of them Russian, were hung out on the building of Viasnianka factory in Mahilou on Belarus' Independence Day.

No Russian flags were noticed on other official buildings of the city, Radio Svaboda reports.

Viasnianka is loss-making sewing factory. To unload its overfilled warehouses, the factory had to sell its products to the city's companies with a considerable discount. A possibility to merge Viasnianka and successful Mogotex is being discussed.

This is not the first case of promoting the “Russian world” in Belarus.

T-shirts depicting armed Putin were noticed in Zamok shopping mall in Minsk owned by tobacco millionaire Pavel Topuzidis, a pro-Lukashenka oligarch with Greek and Georgian roots and co-owner of Tabak-Invest company. Similar t-shirts were also sold at the central station in Polatsk.

Russian flags were distributed in Minsk and big cities across Belarus, residents of Babruisk, Hrodna, Vitsebsk, Homel, Orsha, Polatsk and Baranavichy report. The flags are distributed by pro-Russian organisations working in Belarus.

Sellers of Russian flags were noticed in Navapolatsk on June 17 and 18. The police of Orsha detained sellers of flags in Orsha last week.

Belarusian authorities ignore most facts of distribution of symbols of the neighbouring state in Belarusian towns.