Yarmoshyna: Why learn English if I am banned from entering EU?

The head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) doesn't want to “suffer and complicate life”.

Lidziya Yarmoshyna said it in an interview with the newspaper SB. Belarus Segodnia.

“I walk a lot. I am not a sportswoman, but I prefer active lifestyle: I swim three times a week, do exercises and walk in the forest every evening and morning if I don't oversleep. You can place my portrait on the honour board with the mark 'Our staff looks up to you' Many people recognise me in streets, and it makes me feel embarrassed. I can walk without much attention only to the nearest shop,” the official noted.

This is the reason why Yarmoshyna prefers a corporate cottage in a forest. The EU-blacklisted official says about her unsuccessful marriages:

“If the father came home, he often turned himself loose. The main magic word was 'Quickly!' I am a different person. I swore when I was a child that I would go far from home to study in university and that I would never be with a man who can shout. Perhaps, it was the reason for my two unsuccessful marriages. My husbands couldn't shout, but they were doormats,” the official says.

Yarmoshyna says she doesn't see sense in learning English.

“I was frightened when I began to work after university. I thought, 'My god, how will I survive until pension? This is impossible.' Now I cannot imagine what I will do after retirement. By the way, any habit became a part of your life and stops being irritating. But I cannot make myself learn English without a good reason. I am banned from entering the EU. Why suffer and make my life complicated? I act according to the situation. I am not lazy when I need it. But I can relax,” Yarmoshyna says.

The official notes she is happy and doesn't want to change anything in her life.

“It wouldn't be me otherwise. All mistakes are made due to naivety and, perhaps, the lack of prudence. These are my traits, and I couldn't change anything. Naivety disappears with years, but the lack of prudence remains,” Yarmoshyna concludes.

All election campaigns in Belarus since 1996 were called by the OSCE not free and unfair. Head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna was banned from entering the European Union and the US. Yarmoshyna said after the extension of sanctions in 2008 that he regretted the restrictions and dreamt to visit Paris.