According to the publication, the official he hasn’t worked for some time and has been absent from the official news for about a month.
“According to our information, Sukalo’s health has deteriorated and doctors are fighting for his life in intensive care,” the statement read.
“Nasha Niva” notes that the head of the armed forces managed to do this work as Minister of Justice of the Byelorussian SSR, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR, was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of the Republic. In 1997, after the now unrecognized President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko came to power, he was appointed Chief Justice and has held this post ever since.
“He contributed to the creation of a regime of personal power and the emasculation of the judiciary. During Sukalo’s presidency, the percentage of guilty verdicts reached 99.7%, and in political cases 100%. That is, it became absolutely impossible to prove the innocence of citizens in court, and the court has turned into a simple ritual printing of decisions made in advance in law enforcement agencies,” Belarusian journalists write.
On November 26 in Belarus suddenly The 64-year-old head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei died. It was considered representative of the pro-Western wing of the Belarusian authorities. Before the mass demonstrations in 2020, which were held to protest the fraudulent presidential elections, Makei was committed to normalizing Belarus’ relations with the European Union and the United States, but then switched to pro-Russian rhetoric.
This was stated by the leader of the Belarusian opposition Valery Kovalevsky the circumstances of Makei’s death remain unclear and leave room for many versions and hypotheses. Lukashenka attended the farewell ceremony with Makei, but “didn’t say anything good or anything great about Makei,” noted Kovalevsky.
