Category: Belarus

Zingeris: Lithuania is Paying a Price for Wanting to Turn Belarus Into Ukraine

This video has it all…

I have found a video on Politnavigator, that terrible Russian disinformation platform, which however happens to be more informative than your mainstream media. It features Lithuanian parliamentarian, Emanuelis Zingeris speaking to a Belorussian opposition figure. I translate what he says.

I would like to tell my Belarusian friend that there isn’t any relent in Warsaw or Vilnius. You know how much we are paying for this. Belarus, Lukashenko, the former president has given an order to remove all the transports, starting with Potassium, through Klajpeda. This is the closest port for Belarus, one third of all transports through Klajpeda are Belarusian transports, we have rejected those things too… And we are simply on the side of the Belarusian people and it costs us, we understand this, and I am glad our government has given a clear statement on this matter. We are on the side of reforms in Belarus, we support Mrs. Tikhanovskaya and we hope that the Belarusian people learn from the experience of Ukraine and adopts Ukrainian structural changes. How Ukrainian became todays Ukraine…

There are politicians, who are so deluded as to give Ukraine as an example. Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe; it has a civil war on its territory; the Russian language, which Zingeris uses to communicate to his Belarusian friend is not official there; millions of people are forced to emigrate in search of jobs and security (Lithuania experiences similar trends); opposition parties are being under legal harassment; TV channels are being closed; neonazis celebrate SS in Kiev…

Belarusians can be glad Bat’ka did not allow Belarus to become Ukraine.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Wants to Rename Belarus

Apparently, the current name reminds one of Russia too much. Weren’t we told that the word Rus has as much relationship to Russia as Romania does to Rome?

The word Rus is an antiquated word for Russia. The current name Russia is a hellenism which has been adopted by European languages, including Russian somewhere in the Middle Ages. In the Early Middle Ages however, the Arabs referred to the Varangians that sailed the rivers of Russia as Rhos, clearly adopting the nomenclature of the people they wrote about.

The division of Rus, into what we now know as Russia, Ukraine and Belarus has its origins in a centuries long occupation of the lands of Rus by Lithuania and Poland, which has created a creole culture that formed the basis for the national movements of the Belarusians and Ukrainians. And while the Ukrainians have found a way to do away with their previous ethnonym, which was Little Russians, the Belarusians did not. Nevertheless, I still not know whether changing the ethnonym was a win for the Ukrainians.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, the foreign minister of Lithuania thinks the name of Belarus needs a little tweak. He said so the other day in a meeting with the Belarusian opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Translated from Shariy.net:

The name that we use for our neighboring country should not evoke the notion that Belarus is a part of Russia, which developed during the years of occupation. Belarus means White Rus not Russia, and this should be reflected in the name we use. If the Belarusians express the wish, we will change the name we employ, just like we changed the name of Georgia to Sakartvelo.

Gabrielius Landsbergis

Perhaps the EU should start calling Georgia: “Sakartvelo”. But perhaps this works for Baltic languages. The Czechs would finds this funny.

An Environmentalist Activist From the Czech Republic Wants an EU Army to Wage a Crusade on Belarus

Progressivism is a religion and it requires a military action to assert its values…

I hate war but I am not a pacifist. I would really like for there to be a collective European army instead of national militaries. And I would like it to intervene in Belarus in the name of European values to help local civic society.
Hnutí Duha are absolute scum when it comes to environmental activism.

As Lukashenko suppresses the zmaharist protests, democratists are falling into panic.