MINSK - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has called against drawing parallels between the protest in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on Dec. 10, the protests in Minsk on Dec. 19, 2010, and the events in Arab countries.
"It’s wrong to compare the protesters in Bolotnaya Square, the protesters in Minsk on December 19, and the protesters in Egypt," Lukashenko told a press conference in Minsk.
Lukashenko would not draw parallels between the protest in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square and the Minsk protests in December 2010 either.
"The [Minsk] protest had some 3,000 people, of which 800 had come to the protest deliberately and the rest were onlookers who left as soon as the first OMON special task troops arrived. You can’t automatically compare these things," Lukashenko said.
