Day 488

Sledgehammer jornoism

Young Belarusians marvel at Prigozhin’s sledgehammer displayed at the presidential palace in Minsk (May 2023, photo c/o Belta)

Val @nytimes asks in her headline whether Lukashenko is “the one big winner” of the Kremlin-Wagner clash¹. The answer, of course, is no.

The article quotes a bunch of Belarusian ex diplomats I don’t know, have never met and hopefully will never encounter, including Pavel Latushka, who at the very end of the article makes the following observation about the presidents of Belarus and Russia.