On 21 December, the case of a certain S.Antonov was being examined in the court of the Central district of Minsk. According to the police report, he had participated in an unsanctioned action and had been shouting out anti-state slogans. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. To the questions of the judge as to whether he agrees with the accusation, the defendant was unable to respond, since it turned out that he – is a deaf-mute. They sent the detainee off back to the isolator, and the reports – for additional work to the police. This incident could have seemed funny if we did not know who former lieutenant-colonel of the fire troops Lukashenko is and what the system of authoritarianism built by him in the republic is. The system, by the way, is very much like the one that former lieutenant-colonel of the KGB Putin has built up in Russia. You will say: system, schmystem, but what does any of this have to do with deaf-mutes?