Vice-Speaker of Russian State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky commented on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev video block on the point of Russian-Belarusian relations. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, also criticized President Alexander Lukashenko, saying that he "had just killed a number of opposition activists."
«You know, as a man (Alexander Lukashenko — Telegraf) he simply prostitutes. Listen, he milked Moscow, then ran to milk Brussels. Having milked Brussels, will now be milking Saakashvili (Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili), mafia, Kirghiz crime in the face of Bakiyev (former President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev),» Vladimir Zhirinovsky declared, the radio station «Mayak».
«Having milked all opposition, he just killed a number of its activists. There was a former minister, whom he disliked, journalists and anyone else, and so on. That is, of course, the degradation of the individual, and he can not stop,» the vice Speaker of Russian State Duma summed up.
As Telegraf reported, on October 2 at a press conference for Russian media President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he had difficult relationship with the current Russian leadership (president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin). «Our relations are poor, if not worse,» the head of state stated, underlining that negative reports in the Russian media had been sanctioned by the Russian leadership.
In turn, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in his video blog that President Alexander Lukashenko «goes far beyond not only the diplomatic rules in his remarks about Russia, but basic human decency as well.» At the same time the Russian leader expressed his confidence that «senseless strain streak between Russia and Belarus is sure to end.»
Later, press secretary of Russian president Natalia Timakova declared that the Kremlin’s relations with the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko had reached deadlock and would never be the same. At the same time, according to Natalia Timakova, between the two countries «political contacts will be maintained at all levels.»
