Lukashenka: I am not going to die till at least 90 years old

Answering the question of a journalist from Kastrama about the economic situation in the country and the ways for overcoming the crisis, Lukashenka has stated that there wasn't any crisis in Belarus, there were some problems with currency. According to him, the population took 3 billion dollars out of the country.

Lukashenka has noted that there is "a horrible deficit of working force in Belarus... we don't have enough workers today".

Answering the question of the newspaper "Tribuna" about the former tension between the governments of Belarus and Russia, Lukashenka has underlined: "We had problems, but now there are none. Absolutely none!"

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has said that former Vice-PM and current deputy head of the President's Administration Andrej Kabyakou may become the future Ambassador of Belarus to Russia. The state leader has also claimed that Kabyakou has an apartment in Moscow.

Lukashenka has said that state secretary of the Union State Pavel Baradzin will be employed in Belarus and will receive a diplomatic passport if he loses his position.

"Don't lay all eggs in one basket!" — this is how Lukashenka commented Belarus' orientation not only to Russia, but to China for instance.

According to Lukashenka, even Mikhail Gorbachev "is sending signals: You should not destroy Belarus and include it into Russia in any case. This will be bad for both Belarus and Russia".

The Belarusian leader has told a story that someone from Russia wanted to give a 15 billion dollars bribe. According to Lukashenka, we was offered an "affluent old age" under certain conditions by the West, through "one of our people who has access to me", last week.

Answering the question of the "100TV" TV-channel's representative from St. Petersburg about yesterday's detention of sociologist Aleh Manayeu in Minsk, Lukashenka has said that he know nothing about that and ordered to prepare a report for him. Nevertheless, he has commented upon Manayeu's sociological research:"Manayeu, as far as I understand, is the foster child of the West... He received an order... We saw that, we followed the events". 

"If you want my rating to be 90%, it will be so tomorrow", — Lukashenka has said.

Lukashenka has recalled the recent election and confessed that he "gave 600 thousand of my signatures to other candidates, so that the Central Elections Commission would register them...Under a brutal pressure".

Lukashenka has commented on the issue of political prisoners. According to him, almost all of them were released. "It seems to me there are 2 or 3 people left. They want to be heroes", — the state leader has said. As for him, he considers them to be "bandits", not the opposition members.

According to Lukashenka, "a research was done yesterday in Belarus in order to find out who bought currency". It turned out that there were "pure importers, who bring clothes from abroad...".

Lukashenka does not see the reason for his rating to fall to 20%. Recalling the recently announced results of the research conducted by IISEPS, he has said that such research "never worried" him. He has promised that an objective sociological research will be conducted soon.

Lukashenka has answered the question that sometimes they predict that he will have the same destiny as the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. "As for Muammar Gaddafi, we don't know about his destiny... He did not run away... He is struggling", — the Belarusian leader has said.

"I am not going to die till at least 90 years old and a bit more...", — Lukashenka has said. He has recalled his youngest son Kolya and said "it is not a fact that he will have a good destiny and life".

Lukashenka has claimed that he was not offered 9 billion.

The state leader has at last received the report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with regard to yesterday's detention of Aleh Manayeu and read it out. According to the report, Aleh Manayeu was detained in the framework of the anti-drugs operation which was conducted in the area of the Victory Square in Minsk.

Lukashenka has called Kanavalau, who is accused of organization and conducting the blast in the Minsk metro, a "unique person". He has reminded that Kanavalau found the information on how to make an explosive device in the Internet and "added something himself". The Russian Federal Security Service requested access to him so that he showed how he assembled this device, the Belarusian leader has told.