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How Cancellation of the Ice Hockey World Championship Hits Lukashenka

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How Cancellation of the Ice Hockey World Championship Hits Lukashenka
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Any interaction with the regime in the public arena is super toxic.

There is a growing number of signals that the 2021 IIHF World Championship will be removed from the Belarusian capital, says Salidarnasts.

Such famous brands as Nivea and Liqui Moli have already refused to sponsor the championship. It also became known that Belarus has fallen from the 16th to 114th place in the world ranking of safe countries.

It seems that Aliaksandr Lukashenka is losing an important instrument. Russian journalist Sergei Parkhomenko briefly and figuratively explained how the instrument worked.

"Why did Lukashenka need it (the IIHF World Championship)? It's clear why - to spoil it by playing. "Yes, there was some trouble in the summer and fall. Everything's fine now. Now we're hosting the championship. Guests, flags," the journalist said on Echo of Moscow.

- Everyone is happy, everyone is drinking wonderful diet Belarusian vodka, eating the famous Belarusian diet cucumber and drinking wonderful sour cream. We have such delicious sour cream in Belarus - the best in Europe! You know it. Everybody gets a bucket of sour cream! I'd like to see who agrees to bring the World Championship.

No, you will have to be responsible.

Meanwhile, Reflexion and Reaction telegram channel, referring to the recent visit of the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Minsk, notes:

"Fasel was defiantly spat upon, turning a behind-the-scenes meeting into a public one. As a result, he now looks like a two-time idiot: on the one hand, he made friends with the dictator; on the other, he has to make absurd excuses.

In the end, it looks like a red flag to the rest of the near-political figures - any interaction with the regime in the public arena is super-toxic. Use one to make an image and throw one away, then one has to make excuses.

In part, it explains an acute desire to add legitimacy to the regime against the background of no visits of any senior officials to Minsk. In part, it's a conscious policy of "if you start talking about the resignation of ARL in one form or another, you're not welcome here".

It should be recalled that the final decision about moving the Ice Hockey World Championship from Minsk will be made at the end of January.

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