Seviarynets: Latushka is the Best Alternative for the Position of Prime Minister of a Free Belarus
- Admin of the NAM
- Feb 9
- 2 min read
The former political prisoner wrote on his Facebook page about his acquaintance with the former Minister of Culture, former Director of the Kupalauski Theater, and current Deputy to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. "Pavel Latushka was Belarusian from the very beginning, not Lukashenka's," he writes.
Original article: nashaniva.com
"In the early 2000s, at a diplomatic reception in Minsk, I — then the chairman of the Malady Front — approached Pavel Latushka. I knew that he was perhaps the only prominent civil servant who consistently spoke Belarusian on principle. I thanked him for his 'Belarusianness' and asked if he hoped to change the Lukashenko system from within.
Pavel Latushka replied that we all dream of the same independent, democratic, and Belarusian Belarus, and that he was trying to pursue that path.
'Pash, how can you support a former Lukashenko official?' people sometimes say to me now.
But Pavel Latushka was Belarusian from the very beginning, not Lukashenka's.
Like the national-communists of the 1920s, Pavel Latushka did everything he could for Belarus from within the system — dignifiedly representing Belarus in countries around the world and international organizations in the Belarusian language, pushing through the grand 'Castles of Belarus' program, and saving Belarusian culture from the Soviet mentality and Moscow.
In 2020, it was Pavel Latushka who raised the flag to unite all officials who disagreed with Lukashenko — and that flag, of course, was the white-red-white. He went through threats, assassination attempts, and provocations — and continues to unite Belarusian proto-state structures as a high-class team player.
For Pavel Latushka, 'team' is a key concept, and for Belarusians, that is a valuable rarity.
Over several years, Pavel Latushka has gathered a team of specialists capable of replacing the core of the state apparatus of Belarus when a 'window of opportunity' opens.
And I believe there is currently no better alternative for the position of the first Prime Minister of a free, democratic, and independent Belarus," wrote Pavel Seviarynets.
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