Russia’s biggest news agency, RIA Novosti, described Friday’s events outside the tribunal as an “attempted coup”. Its first commentary, published late that night, was headlined “Poland postpones war with Russia. Civil war on the agenda”, the newspaper said.
Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin who leads the economic side of talks with the United States, weighed in on a post by pro-Trump influencer Jack Posobiec, who had threatened Prime Minister Donald Tusk with prison.
“Europe is not doing well, with migrants, war incitement, riots and coups. Repent”, Dmitriev wrote.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Tusk’s circle of “persecuting conservatives from PiS, among other things for their reluctance towards Banderites”.
Russian commentator Irina Alksnis, citing a RIA Novosti report from Wednesday, claimed Poland’s governing coalition was preparing to impeach President Karol Nawrocki and that taking control of the tribunal was an alleged precondition. She argued the European Commission wanted to exploit the tensions to tighten its grip on Poland, with the president as an obstacle, and said Moscow could only watch.
In Belarus, the daily Minskaya Pravda portrayed Poland as a symbol of a divided Europe, while Alexander Lukashenko’s leading propagandist, Grigory Azaronok, likened the situation to the May Coup of 1926 and accused Warsaw of hypocrisy over the rule of law, the newspaper said.
Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and opposition activist, said on X that the reaction was predictable.
“The outburst of joy in Belarusian and Russian propaganda was easy to predict. The greater the political chaos in Poland, the greater their satisfaction. They are not rooting for either side in the dispute over the Constitutional Tribunal. Their interest is different: to fuel the conflict. The more divided we are, the better for them”, he wrote.
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Source: PAP