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Minsk
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Thank you so much for coming here.
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I’m not afraid for you, you’re doing great, and I’m glad that...
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...you are taking part in the election campaign.
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Where people are not afraid.
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In one region, they spend money on decorative lighting
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for trees—12 billion rubles (about 120 million USD)—while in another
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region, right in the city center, there are
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crumbling buildings. But you can’t keep pulling everything into
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one single region.
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Something has to remain here too, and this is
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unthinkable in a country that ranks first
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in the world in oil sales, first
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in gas sales as well—and yet wages are what they are.
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Wages.
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I will bring them before a fair court,
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because they did not simply steal
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billions or millions—they stole
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our future.
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What will you do with those
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civil society organizations that
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will criticize your presidency?
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Those who criticize my presidency—I
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will value them greatly, because I understand that
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I will eventually stop being president.
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I simply want the president to be
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a normal person, and I need there to be
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organizations that criticize the next
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president. We are the strongest force—well, not the strongest, but
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there is no one else with so many active, politically
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engaged people as we have. That is why our
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victory is inevitable.
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And their defeat is just as inevitable.
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Thank you to our world.
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Goodbye.
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There.
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