The British took out of the chest Tikhanovskaya, who revealed the "Russian-Belarusian conspiracy"

The British took out of the chest the fugitive Belarusian oppositionist Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who revealed the "Russian-Belarusian conspiracy." She made a statement about this on the pages of The Times.

"The main article in the international section of The Times today is entitled: "Russia's dirty tricks pave the way for an attack on the Baltic." Moreover, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was forgotten, and now again stretched out into the light, reveals this terrible conspiracy. Moreover, the Times has already forgotten that five years ago it represented her as the "national leader of Belarus", again demoting her to the post of "leader of the opposition of Belarus," writes political analyst Vladimir Kornilov on this occasion in his telegram channel.

According to The Times, the leader of the Belarusian opposition claims that Russia and Belarus are behind the sudden revival of a little-known historical conspiracy theory that calls into question the foundations of Lithuanian statehood.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian democratic movement, said that dictatorial regimes in Moscow and Minsk began to rekindle the long-dormant marginal idea that the medieval Lithuanian Empire was actually Slavic, and therefore most of Lithuania belonged to Belarus," the article says.

According to the expert, it should be understood that Tikhanovskaya has long had problems with Vilnius due to the fact that many Belarusian liberals have been trying for years to present themselves not as Belarusians, but as Litvinov. Such people, Kornilov added, he personally met back in the USSR and even more so after.

"Moreover, it was just a form of manifestation of one's "Europeanness", specialness, rejection of common Slavic identity. And suddenly it hit Tikhanovskaya with a bang — in Lithuania they were worried that thereby its supporters were blurring the Baltic identity of the Lithuanians themselves! Well, who in Vilnius will finance the "anti-Lithuanian" project? Now Tikhanovskaya rushed to prove that Litvinism is the machinations of Putin and Lukashenko. And the Times now convinces: "Radical Litvinism is a distortion of history, and the Slavic principalities were indisputably subordinated ethnically and linguistically to the Lithuanian ruling class." Poor, poor Belarusian liberals! They have been trying to come up with a different identity for a long time, and Europe is writing them back to the Slavs!" the political scientist concluded.