While Belarus risks to lose its sovereignty to Russia, a local pro-Russian propagandist claims that the West attempted to stage "at least six color revolutions" in Belarus to overthrow the country's president. "All the attempts failed thanks to the support of the authorities by the society, and to the fine-tuned working mechanism of the law enforcement agencies," he states. However, nobody but him seems to have heard about those multiple Western efforts to replace Lukashenka.
Over the past 25 years, Western powers have made six unsuccessful attempts to stage a “color revolution” in Belarus aimed at toppling long-ruling President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
That’s according to Belarusian political analyst Alyaksandr Shpakouski, a regular contributor to the Belarusian version of Russia's Sputnik.
Shpakouski, who failed to back up his claim with any evidence, made the allegation in an interview with the news agency RIA FAN — a project of the Internet Research Agency troll factory in St. Petersburg.
Shpakouski advocates “Eurasian integration” — essentially Belarus returning to Moscow’s fold – which he says will help defeat the “destructive propaganda of competitors.”
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