Strong bow shake – Newspaper Kommersant No. 91 (7053) from 05/29/2021

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On May 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Sochi with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian president showed the Russian his personal grudge against the world that let him down, and promised to present the Russian president with documents from a black diplomat that would show this world as no one has ever seen it. Special correspondent of Kommersant with details about what is happening in Sochi Andrey Kolesnikov.

Alexander Lukashenko flew to Sochi from Minsk, where in the morning he met with the prime ministers of the CIS countries (including Mikhail Mishustin). At this time, Vladimir Putin also managed to hold a meeting of the Security Council in Sochi and congratulate the border guards on their professional holiday (this, presumably, gave them strength, unfortunately). And in general, it was clear that their meeting was not just scheduled for the evening and therefore it was worth hurrying to discuss everything, but on the contrary, there was simply plenty of time, there was nowhere to rush, because there were still two days off, so all the things that were planned for the week were needed , to remake to the end, and then relax in each other’s company. So, prudent people come to a boarding house near Moscow since Friday evening, meaning not to lose a single precious minute of the weekend.

– Thank you for coming, as agreed, – said Vladimir Putin. – We agreed on this even before the next round …

He hesitated, thinking what to call what is happening now in connection with the Ryanair boarding in Minsk.

“A surge of emotions,” Aleksandr Lukashenko prompted him.

This version suited the Russian president:

– Yes, and a surge of emotions!

That is, I did it, but not completely.

Mr. Putin made it clear that there was, of course, a lot of things in this story, but also a surge of emotions.

“Without these events, we have something to talk about,” the Russian president said. “I mean that in the first quarter of this year — and Russia remains Belarus’s key trade and economic partner — we observe a significant increase in trade: 18.4%.

Saying words about trade, from which in negotiations of this kind should, by all accounts, reduce cheekbones first of all at Vladimir Putin himself, but only, apparently, does not reduce, the Russian president apparently wanted to make it clear that the topic to which the last few days, all world or at least European attention is riveted, is not so important, does not so much occupy him and his imagination, as, perhaps, someone would like.

“And this is a good tendency,” the Russian president continued, “it is important to preserve it with the active work of the government, now our chairman of the government is in Minsk …

– Everything is there … – stated Alexander Lukashenko.

“… We will,” it seems, he wanted to add, and that would be fair.

– Yes, everything is within the CIS, – Vladimir Putin interrupted him (Although he interrupted him … It was he who was speaking now, in theory, that is, he was constantly interrupted in each micro-pause by inserting something from himself, charged to fight to what you want the end, and it is already clear that in reality it is just a feverishly animated Mr. Lukashenko. A.K.), – and I know that he had contacts with his Belarusian colleagues, he called me even today from there, talking about how the work is going!

“We met with them in the morning,” Alexander Lukashenko stressed his leading role.

“Yes, I know,” Mr. Putin nodded.

That is, although he did not meet with anyone there in the morning, he knew everything no worse, and, most likely, better than some.

“In June, we will have already given the start-up of the first unit of the nuclear power plant,” the Russian president added.

– In industrial operation, – Alexander Lukashenko did not deny himself the pleasure to add.

It was about the Belarusian nuclear power plant, which Vladimir Putin boldly called “our”.

– Yes, – the Russian president nodded, – we can consider that in this sense the work is being completed.

That is, in other senses, for some reason it still continues.

– The weather in Sochi is good, as you can see. We can swim, ”the Russian president said unexpectedly.

In my opinion, this proposal contained a clear challenge, since now only those who, in some sense, have nothing to lose, swim in the Black Sea, because the water temperature has not yet reached even 20 degrees.

And here, God forbid, you catch pneumonia or just a cold … And if Alexander Lukashenko really seems to have nothing to lose, since he seems to have already lost everything (but this is always not certain), then Vladimir After all, Putin has a meeting with another leader to whom he should at least try to explain something … And why from scratch (that is, in the presence of Alexander Lukashenko) to demonstrate the reserves of the body … We take our word for it …

I even thought that maybe Vladimir Putin was referring to a heated pool.

– With pleasure, – the President of Belarus nodded, as though he fired a single shot from a machine gun.

But no, Vladimir Putin did not mean the pool, of course:

“The sea is getting warmer and warmer,” he stifled all illusions. “I think that this will also contribute to the achievement of the results of our meeting today.

That is, apparently, you will not want to get out. And maybe at least less time will be left for conversations.

– Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, – Alexander Lukashenko responded, – for the human invitation, on Friday, so that you can really plunge into the sea on weekends. I understand this invitation!

Yes, it was hard to make a mistake here.

And although the Russian president had previously hinted that the topic of the plane landed in Minsk should not be peddled, at least in the public part of the meeting, Alexander Lukashenko did not think so. He had no choice. He could not pass up the opportunity to say at least something so that at least someone would hear.

“Yes, indeed, there is a lot of talk about the meeting, unexpected even for me,” he continued. – AK), we very carefully monitor every movement (He now, it seems, had in mind his snipers. – AK). “Here, we meet very often” and so on … But this is our plan! .. We announced this at the end of last year that we, as you rightly said, will gradually discuss all issues. If we stumbled upon some issue and cannot consider it without specialists, then we hand it over to specialists, they prepare, we meet. The main thing is that we are moving forward!

But he shouldn’t have made excuses.

– You correctly noted the growth of trade, – the President of Belarus nodded. – We are now calculating literally every fraction of a percent. And we see that this year we will surpass our pre-pandemic, dock-like trade turnover with Russia. And there we had a trade turnover of more than $ 35 billion.

– Last year we had more than 29 (billion US dollars – A.K.). Last year, despite the drop, the volume was more than 29, the Russian president added.

Alexander Lukashenko hesitated. Somehow he immediately ceased to understand numbers. Moreover, there was no point in them now.

– Yes, – he said after all. – And before COVID it was …

He hesitated again, not really understanding what had happened when. Although he himself just said that before COVID there was $ 35 billion.

On the other hand, no one knows from what moment he started counting. The President of Belarus in general, as you know, did not recognize for a long time that COVID exists. That is, for him the “covid” level began, apparently, from the moment only when he got sick himself. And that was a year ago.

“… Over 30 (billion US dollars. – A.K.),” Mr Putin reminded him of his own words.

But Alexander Lukashenko was not going to dwell for so long on a topic that did not interest him at all now. He conceived it as a prologue to the main thing, but somehow he could not approach him. And so he decided to approach:

– Therefore, here we have a good pace. I look at your GDP, as well as ours … You know, we were predicted to almost stagnate. The economy in Russia is growing. Naturally, our economy, tied to Russia, is moving normally. But, you know, there are always those who want to throw problems at us! You know about them. I will inform you (if he knows why to inform. But it was clear that you still have to listen. – AK). Using the confidential relationship, I captured some of the documents so that you understand what is going on!

Only now, not only has he become noticeable, but simply caught the eye of the black “diplomat” with gilded fasteners, who was standing on the right behind Alexander Lukashenko’s chair.

The price of documents and records from Alexander Lukashenko, which was announced publicly, with the risk of disgrace (and one hundred percent), is well known, but nevertheless, to make out a whole “diplomat” of documents concerning the apparently intriguing circumstances of the Ryanair boarding … do not have time to swim. That is, at least some benefit from the “diplomat” was not ruled out.

“I will publicly say the following,” Alyaksandr Lukashenka warned in a tone that does not tolerate objections. “So that you understand what kind of people they are! Although we discussed many problems in this vein …

That is, it became clear long ago.

– Do you remember the period of last year, when, probably more than Russia, no one saved their people, taking them out of the resorts? – Alexander Lukashenko asked. – And even 200 Belarusians helped us to take out from India. Somewhere along the way we were taking out the Russians, our Belavia …

By the way, he was right now speaking. And so it was. This he used.

“Then everything was closed,” the President of Belarus reminded again. “There was one airport in Minsk, and we were taking our people out. They closed everything! (Well, after all, some airports, in all fairness, worked. And Aeroflot flew to Rome, and to Frankfurt, and even to London … – AK). And they asked Belavia … Can you imagine what an abomination ?! – Aleksandr Lukashenko finally exploded; or rather, he allowed himself to explode, for these explosions were undoubtedly calculated for him. “They asked for our company!” And our company took out thousands of people: Swedes, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians … they generally had it tightly closed … Americans … Thousands were taken to Minsk, since the only airport was open, and then the Americans took people away from us, and we took them there. You cannot imagine how they were at the end of last year and at the beginning of this they are grateful to us, the Belavia team, for the people taken out, saved!

Now, he meant, they repaid with black ingratitude (just not knowing in the heat of the moment how and what else to repay).

– Belavia has nothing to do with this incident with the plane (of Ryanair – AK)! – continued the President of Belarus. – What company Belavia has to do with this? There were no Belavia planes there, it is based at the airport where you fly and others. Someone else’s plane! They reproach the military for putting him in prison. What does Belavia have to do with it ?! “Soaked” to the fullest! And if not for you during this period … I see, Muscovites, Moscow refuses – fly around Belarus, they do not accept planes in Moscow. We felt it right away !!

Yes, Alexander Lukashenko, as it seemed to him, found a weak spot in the EU’s position and now continued to poke at it with his red-hot poker.

– But what was the labor collective of “Belavia” punished for ?! For the fact that they took them out in thousands of covid ?! Here is their face! – Alexander Lukashenko threw in this face.

And, that is, it was necessary, apparently, to declare war on Alexander Lukashenko personally.

So it will happen sooner or later.

– I renounce what was there! – Alexander Lukashenko was no longer very clear, but did it ever matter? – I will show you some documents, you will understand what is happening and what happened there! There is an attempt to swing the situation up to the level of August last year!

What was the President of Belarus going to show Vladimir Putin from what he did not see? Yes, he wrote them.

– The plane of the President of Bolivia was once planted, the president was taken out of the plane – and nothing, silence … – added the Russian president from the well-known.

– Quite right! – Alexander Lukashenko exclaimed. – And with Russia in Turkey, remember ?! A plane flew to Syria. Allegedly weapons … They planted, inspected. Nobody screamed. Well, they examined and examined … your sovereign right …

Did he mean that it was his sovereign right to land Ryanair?

“It’s just clear what these Western friends want from us,” Alexander Lukashenko nodded. “What is there to discuss? But there are no heights that the Bolsheviks did not take! Let’s take it too!

– Okay! – Vladimir Putin laughed.

But this topic was close to him.

Andrey Kolesnikov

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