Minsk summit backstage in Bulgakov style: Russian Lifenews journo literally barks at Ukraine reporter


The Minsk talks held overnight into Thursday lasted for 16 hours. Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka said that ‘several buckets of coffee had been drunk’.

Belsat TV has collected some photoes of what was happening on the sidelines of the summit:

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Having spent hours in wait for the results of the meeting Russian journalist Alexander Yunashev must have got bored and started quarreling with Olga Koshelenko, a Ukrainian reporter. He grabbed the girl by the hands, then literally barked at her and finally said “F*ck you!”    

Interestingly, his boss Anatoly Suleymanov did not criticise or punish Yunashev for inappropriate conduct. Quite the opposite – “If I were Sasha Yunashev I would have pissed on these ‘colleagues’,” he said on Twitter. He also stressed Yunashev is a friend of him.

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Ukrainian journalist Olga Koshelenko wrote about the incident on Facebook moments after it occurred: “And it’s true. Sasha from LifeNews jumped up to us and barked in our faces like a dog. It came quite naturally to him. Thankfully, he didn’t bite. Video [to come] later.”

Shortly thereafter, Koshelenko’s colleague, Yulia Yanchar, published video of the incident, meduza.io reports. In comments to Meduza, Yanchar confirmed that a LifeNews reporter by the name of Sasha really did bark in the faces of several Ukrainian journalists in Minsk.

It seems that Bulgakov’s ‘Dog’s Heart’ still explains many things in Russia.  

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