Belarus, demonstrations in Siberia, Navalny ... hard return for the Kremlin

The crisis in Belarus, the Navalny affair which irritates relations with the West, other protests which continue, in the Russian Far East, but also the Covid-19 and its damage to the economy ... Vladimir Poutin sees the dark clouds build up. On Sunday again, in Minsk and in the main Belarusian cities, many demonstrators were in the streets, three weeks after the disputed presidential election of August 9.

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The opposition had called for " celebrating " Alexander Lukashenko on his 66th birthday, which fell on Sunday. Dozens of people were arrested. The day before, all foreign journalists were declared undesirable, raising fears of a crackdown behind closed doors. Vladimir Poutine once again telephoned his Belarusian counterpart for his birthday, but above all to invite him to Moscow soon. Impatience is growing in the Kremlin in the face of Lukashenko's inertia and his reluctance to organize a transition out of the

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