Lukashenka: I was not in a drinking bout :: Charter'97 :: News

Alyaksandr Lukashenka considers that there is no other country in the world where heads of the states and their families are so cruelly offended by oppositional mass media as the Belarusian leader and his family is offended by the Belarusian oppositional mass media. “There is no other country where such things happen. Could you find any other fool who is so mocked at by non-state mass media? They pour so much dirt over President that even the Moscovsky Komsomolets can’t dream about”, - the Belarusian leader said at the press conference on Thursday while answering the question why oppositional newspapers are not published at the sate publishing houses asked by editor of the “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper Iosif Syaredzich.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka continued that by saying “In oppositional press the information appeared that Lukashenka had not appeared for a long time on TV because he had been in a drinking bout. Nobody in Belarus will believe that I was in a drinking bout. Why do you write such things? Sometimes I feel awkward in the presence of my colleagues-presidents for not allowing myself a drink of vodka”.

Concerning the information which appears from time to time in the oppositional mass media Lukashenka said “Why are you torturing my children? They have been growing up and studying in Belarus. You know all of them. You, Iosif Paulavich knew them when they were not adult. Why do you behave like that?”

Lukashenka also added “You want to be allowed to publish your newspapers at the sate publishing houses to get the opportunity of writing more bullshit their”.