Lukashenko addressed journalists: you are at the forefront now, and you do your job
In conditions of the ongoing information warfare, journalists are now at the forefront – as noted by the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, during his informal conversation with media executives and journalists at the country’s first-ever firewood chopping championship, BelTA reports
The President was asked what should be done and how to behave so that Belarus would continue to remain a kind of enclave and model of a socially oriented state. “Much could be said about this, but – while communicating with people and while addressing them – I always say: do your job. This is the key – so that the events of 2020 will never happen again," Aleksandr Lukashenko replied.
The Head of State stressed that journalists are now actually at the forefront, “This is because information warfare and information confrontation are the main point of this hostility. So you are paramount now.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko added that there is definitely no hot war now, but much depends on journalists. "You are at the forefront, and I am with you," the President noted.
"So there is no need to be afraid of anyone. If they [opponents] start to attack you, then this means they have been affected. If they start referring to you, saying something – well, let them do so. They have such a trend now: ‘Guys, we are not forming the agenda; we are rather retranslating what Lukashenko supporters say’. This is what is observed. They cannot even form [this agenda]. How can they do this? That is the reason why they voiced [these calls] the use of rockets… They are madmen. If they were politicians, they cannot say that – even if they want this in a crazy dream," the Belarusian leader stressed.
"Well, who will follow them in Belarus today? They have already dropped below the ground level. Such things cannot be done. Thank God they are such. I would repeat: our opposition should be cherished and nourished. Let it continue to remain like this," the Head of State noted with a bit of humour.
