Moscow-Live.ru / Anastasia Zotova

In Minsk in the morning of 6 August was delayed a Trustee of the candidate in presidents of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovski Maria frost, said the portal Tut.by in the joint staff of the candidate. Frost was arrested about 11 a.m. at the exit from the Lithuanian Embassy after submission of visa documents.

Moscow-Live.ru / Anastasia Zotova

In Minsk in the morning of 6 August was delayed a Trustee of the candidate in presidents of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovski Maria frost, said the portal Tut.by in the joint staff of the candidate. Frost was arrested about 11 a.m. at the exit from the Lithuanian Embassy after applying for a visa.

Some time in the staff did not know where it is. At 12.45 Maria was released, she explained that it conducted explanatory conversation. The chief of staff Tikhanovski told RIA “news” that frost was taken for “a talk” in the Department for combating organized crime.

In addition, Svetlana Tikhanovski faced with the inability to hold their rally-concert on 6 August in the Park of Friendship of peoples. August 3 it became known that on the evening of his planned a festive event dedicated to the Day of the railway troops. Trustee of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovski Olga kovalkova has applied to the CEC and the Minsk city Executive Committee a complaint against the decision of the city.

On the morning of 6 August, the team Tikhanovski tried to set the scene in the Park of Friendship of peoples for an evening rally. But the traffic police closed the entrance to the Park and unload the vehicle with the equipment failed, and the driver got a ticket for inspection.

According to Kovalkova, neither she nor the applicant had not received the document on impossibility of carrying out of meeting on this site. This photo of a document placed on the eve of the Telegram-channel Harbacevic. Kovalkova said that will travel all allowed courts to make sure that they are busy, then will decide where to place the event. Later it became known that Tikhanovski canceled the meeting, according to “MBH media” with reference to the press service of staff of Babariko.

Earlier Tikhanovski gave an interview to the German newspaper Bild, where he appealed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a request to contact the current President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and demand fair elections. “Tell him we don’t want war. All we want is honest elections. We are tired of the reign of the dictator. We are tired,” asked Tikhanovski to Merkel.

She also said that after the presidential nomination, she began to receive threats associated with their two children. “When I said I’ll take the place of my husband, I anonymously called and said that if I didn’t withdraw my candidacy, I will go to jail and my children will be sent to the orphanage. After the call, I immediately sent their children to a safe place abroad,” she said.

According to Tikhanovski, her 10-year-old son only recently learned about the situation: “I always told him that his father was on a business trip. Now he called me and said, “Mom, I’m scared for you.” It again has strengthened my intentions: I do not want to live in a country where my decision to run for election puts my children in danger”.

Mention the conditions in which they are now living in Belarus, Tikhanovski said the high level of poverty in the country and pressure on dissenters. “Lukashenko has made Belarus a country in which the citizen has to decide: will I buy today a piece of bread, a carton of milk or medicine? The people are poor, and our economy is weak. People live from paycheck to paycheck… Belarus is a country of fear. The government can always come up with the reason why you will be put in jail,” she said.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Germany said that the Federal government “took note” of the statements Tikhanovski, however, due to the proximity of the date of the vote will not be details to comment on them, reports RIA “Novosti”.

Previously unregistered presidential candidate of Belarus Valery Tsepkalo, who left the country to Russia, wrote an open letter to the presidents and Prime Ministers of 32 countries, including USA, Germany, France and the UK with a request to pay attention to the current Belarusian regime anti-people policies and to facilitate the holding of free and fair elections in the country.