L. Yermoshina: Elections became a pretext for undisguised international interference in state affairs

The referendum will be held under the current rules, but all subsequent elections, I am sure, will be held under better rules that will take into account all the challenges that took place during the last presidential election campaign in Belarus. Let's not idealise any law. After all, it is designed to be obediently enforced. Of course, the election law in Belarus is subject to modernization, it is outdated. The Electoral Code was adopted in 2000, and we are already living in 2021. Nevertheless, there is an order of the President that after changing the Constitution the electoral laws should be amended.Experts, political analysts and parliamentarians (in studios in Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk and Veliky Novgorod) today discussed the unprecedented political pressure on Belarus and Russia. The main topics on the agenda were countering external challenges and threats, respect for human rights and freedoms, electoral legislation and its implementation, as well as preservation of historical memory and countering attempts to glorify Nazism and revise the international legal framework.

Modern warfare is fundamentally different from the traditional kind of warfare. That is, it is carried out not so much through forceful scenarios with the use of military equipment, but in the plane of cognitive technology, ideological problems and economic pressure. And this is the sphere of negotiation process, the sphere of politicians, where we have to show our positions clearly and negotiate. The most serious method to counteract these threats, in my opinion, is to consolidate our own vision of the kind of world we are building, what kind of country we are creating, what kind of community of nations, of states we want to build to ensure a future for our nations.At the end of the conference, experts will prepare draft recommendations to be used by parliamentarians in Belarus and Russia.