…AND OVER RUSSIAN MEDIA COVERAGE.

Lukashenko’s chiefspokesman Uladzimir Zametalin charged via Interfax August 7 thatRussian media "are engaged in information warfare" againstLukashenko, are campaigning against Minsk’s policies, and aremisrepresenting the situation in the country. Zametalin imputedthe campaign to "circles opposing CIS integration"–aclear allusion to economic reformers unwilling to saddle Russiawith the burden of subsidizing the unreformed Belarus economy.He warned that his government may stop the circulation in Belarusof the offending Russian publications.

Inonu in Minsk.