BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

02/10/2009

Norway: Rybak criticized for picture with Belarusian dictator

A picture with the last dictator of Europe, Alyaksandr Lukashenka from Belarus, and especially the caption for the picture, published on facebook, by Alexander Rybak, have shocked quite some readers. The Norwegian press burst with critical articles regarding the singer's indignant blog post.

Rybak, the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest who has a Belarusian background, is embracing Lukashenka and holding his thumb up. The quote in the blog, apparently written by Alexander himself is as follows: "President of Belarus and I. Thanks to him, Minsk one of the prettiest and cleanest cities in Europe! Come here!".

Norwegian Amnesty International reacted that this was quite naive, other reactions were quite negative too. Probably because of that the text was altered to "This is me with the President of my native country" later yesterday evening.

Source:

http://3minutes.me/news/general-news/1055-norway-rybak-criticized-for-picture-with-belarusian-dictator

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