Hrodna Residents: Mobile Communication Will Be Turned Off Because Of Lukashenka’s Arrival

A state of siege is being proclaimed in the city because of the dictator’s visit.

Belarusian journalist and blogger Stsiapan Sviatlou (NEXTA) has written about this on Facebook:

– So, tomorrow Lukashenka is arriving in Hrodna – one of his most unloved cities. This is how the city has been preparing for the meeting of the important guest (all the information is from subscribers).

– The day of closed (or rather, half-closed) doors is expected in universities tomorrow. The classes in the Agrarian university are canceled, the entrance to the Yanka Kupala State University – only according to the lists and on showing passports. Students, who are NOT on the list, will not enter the building, they are warned not to even appear nearby. In the main building, a carpet and a throne, on which the students are strictly forbidden to sit, have been waiting for Lukashenka for a week already. A banner "For Strong And Prosperous Belarus" and a new interactive board were installed in the classroom where a meeting with students is to be held. It is prohibited to touch it, because "the board doesn't belong to us." Students who will attend the meeting with His Majesty are trained to raise their arms at the right angle. They are given a list of allowed questions.

Yesterday, they shook off the remaining leaves from the trees near the university, mowed the lawns. They also painted baseboards in the building.

Head teachers for educational work in medical college and other institutions warn that everyone should keep at least 3 meters away from the windows tomorrow. During the breaks it is forbidden to leave the classrooms; you can go to the toilet, but only one person at a time and for no longer than 2 minutes. Such a special regime will last up to 3 pm.

At universities and some schools, tough checks have been carried out for two days in a row. "Different strange people" checked who was absent, who did something wrong, who thinks something unwanted. In the University, they checked all the students by their passports, warned them not to leave the building. Sapper dogs sniffed every corner.

Quote: "The university forbade women to carry all their manicure things with them, bring bottled water from the store and so on."

ALL possible routs of Lukashenka are being checked: dust and leaves are removed from the roadsides,

all bumps are patched, road hatches are shifted to the same level with asphalt, in some places they are brewed, and traffic signs are changed for completely new ones. In Pyshki it was ordered to vacuum clean lawns. Every inch of the place that his majesty can look at was literally licked. Balconies and houses that look at least a little untidy, are urgently brought in proper condition.

Street lights are changed for LED ones. People write the names of their streets in the comments and say that Lukashenka will be driving along it, hoping that the public utilities will clean up there as well. It is reported that in some places the fences were polished with toothbrushes, and the asphalt was hand washed with soap. Some people living in the center are advised, if possible, to refrain from leaving their homes tomorrow and opening the windows. The same applies to organizations.

¬– In the historic district of Novy Svet, houses that were planned to be demolited (there was no money for restoration and they became home to homeless people), suddenly started to be restored (the authorities suddenly found the money, wow!). They bought paints, replaced windows, hung up new curtains so that it wasn't possible to see what is inside. At the same time inside of the buildings is in the same critical condition as it was.

– The Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital will allow visitors to enter only if they provide their passports, it will not accept patients, patients will be transported to other clinics. The other day climbers washed the outer walls of the hospital. And the nurses and doctors were working "in the field" – were raking leaves – right in their robes.

– Today, the Minsk traffic police cars drove around the city, accompanying high ranking officials in their Volkswagen Transporters with tinted windows. Roads were blocked for them. They stopped wherever they wanted violating traffic rules – on pedestrian areas, lawns, curbs. They were seen near the Yanka Kupala university. Helicopters also flew over the city.

– They say that in some parts of the city mobile communication will be turned off tomorrow.

– Construction equipment appeared on a long-time closed construction site of a student dormitory.

– The wages at the Hrodna Azot enterprise, one of the main Hrodna enterprises, suddenly increased.

That's how the leader of the state will assess "the real state of affairs" in the city tomorrow. In what other country is it possible? Although... Extreme window dressing, fear and poverty – this is the real state of affairs in our country. This is the basis of the system.