Andrei Popov does not see for premature release of political prisoners and the smallest sentence activists "Young Front" desire official Belarusian authorities do better business with the West:
"Again stress that the Belarusian side with no one is a no-trade. And it is not going to lead. Belarus — legal country. And all that is going on in Belarus, occurs only in accordance with applicable law our country . "
Political analyst Vitaly Silitski associates nedavneshny sentence activists "Young Front" activist with another sentence of this organization Dmitry Dashkevich, who was given a half years in prison:
"There are obvious some double standards. Means something is up. And it happens, I believe, in the western direction. "
Meanwhile, now Andrei Popov said that the following week in Minsk held a seminar on "Interaction of media and press services in a democratic society."
The proposal to hold the event was received by the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and the OSCE — Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti. Usually, as evidenced by the representatives of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the authorities are wary of such proposals and find a huge number of circumstances to abandon them.