Protests erupted in
different Belarusian cities after presidential election.
MOSCOW, August 13.
/TASS/. Meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is not scheduled on
the agenda of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service told
TASS on Thursday.
"There is no
such meeting in his schedule," the press service said.
Belarus held the
presidential election on August 9. According to the preliminary data made
public by the Central Election Committee on Monday, incumbent president of
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko won 80.23% of the vote, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya got
9.90%. The other three candidates got less than 2% of the vote. Putin sent a
congratulatory telegram to Lukashenko.
After exit poll
results were announced in the evening of August 9, protests erupted in downtown
Minsk and other regions of the country, leading to clashes between protesters
and law enforcement forces.
Source: ITAR-TASS
13-08-2020
