MOSCOW, 7 June (BelTA) – In an interview with BelTA Pavel Feldman, Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Pavel Feldman, commented on the idea that some Russian businessmen may have provided financial support to the organizers of the riots in Belarus.
Commenting on Roman Protasevich's recent revelation on the ONT TV channel that the Telegram channel Nexta, recognized as extremist in Belarus, regularly received money from a Russian businessman, Pavel Feldman noted: “Of course, I would like to know who he meant. It is very difficult to imagine that some major Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs openly supported Nexta or the Belarusian opposition in general, because the Russian leadership resolutely condemns all color revolutions that have taken place in recent years and does not welcome sponsorship of such revolutionary movements with Russian money."
“Yet, if there were such people, they just bit the hand that fed them,” the expert stressed. “The Russian oligarchy should be interested in maintaining political stability as much as possible. Any political turbulence may ultimately lead to an asset redistribution. If they set fire to Belarus, the fire can spread to the Russian Federation. In this sense, if these facts were true, they acted short-shortsightedly, to put it mildly," he added.
