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September 16, 2020

The Belarusian Investigative Committee announced that opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova has been charged with "invoking actions that threaten the national security of Belarus".

Accused under Article 361 of the Belarusian Penal Code, she could now face two to five years in prison.

Kolesnikova, currently detained in the Belarusian city of Zhodino, was declared a suspect in a criminal investigation into "a case of actions aimed at causing damage to national security" on 9 September.

Interfax reports it.

Also today, former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said from exile in Lithuania that the opposition is ready to provide "security guarantees" to the incumbent president, Alexander Lukashenko, if he resigns "peacefully" .

Tikhanovskaya released the statement to the online newspaper Levy bereg, quoted by the Russian news agency Tass.



To journalists who asked her if Lukashenko will be given "security guarantees" in the event of a "peaceful" resignation, Tikhanovskaya replied: "It can be discussed. Of course, if she leaves peacefully, there is a probability of this kind, I would say. also a certainty. Personally I have to speak for everyone, and in this case everyone's opinion will be taken into account ".



Meanwhile, Moscow accuses the West: a visible hand in Belarusian events.

This was stated by the head of foreign secret services, Sergey Naryshkin, in a statement obtained by TASS.

"The Belarusian events have a clearly visible Western matrix. The protests have been well organized and coordinated from abroad from the beginning," he said.



And in Moscow, President Lukashenko calls for the supply of new types of weapons to strengthen the security of the Union State.

"I asked the President of Russia (Putin, ed) to provide some types of weapons. I told him that when he comes to Belarus we will discuss what we actually need to strengthen the State of the Union", said Lukashenko, according to Interfax. .

"There is nothing to fear. We are ready to do so. The latest developments have shown that it is necessary to defend the interests of both Belarusians and Russians more courageously. It just so happens that we have been left alone in this regard, but we are not the weakest, "he stressed.