(((Even miserable, backward Belarus, a country only Venezuela could love, is into taped sex scandals nowadays. There's one kind thing to say about trumped-up centipede scandals like this one: as a political tactic, sex panics are better than suicide bombing. Other than that, they're a blight on world civilization.)))
LATVIA ACCUSES BELARUS OF 'PROVOCATION' OVER AIRED SEX VIDEO.
Belarusian Television on July 30 aired a video allegedly showing a
Latvian diplomat in Minsk having sex with another man, Belapan
reported on July 31.
The host of the show "Focus Of Attention," on which the footage was aired, claimed that the purported sex act was filmed using a secret camera in the diplomat's apartment. The Latvian Foreign Ministry commented on July 31 that the video constituted "one more provocation against the Latvian state and its diplomat, and is a serious violation of the norms and practices of diplomatic law."
Last week, the Latvian Foreign Ministry lodged an official protest against a recent search of the diplomat's residence by Belarusian lawenforcement personnel (see "RFE/RL Newsline," July 26, 2006).
(((It makes you wonder how retro-Communist secret police formally report an episode of gay-bashing to their superiors. Do they have some special code for that? Is there some special apparatchik who sits around with a rubber stamp, bashing gays all day?)))
Belarusian Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau said on July 28 that the diplomat was suspected of distributing pornography. (((Oh the humanity! I can't open my everyday email without a hundred blatant porn-spam instances of this crime.)))
Navumau added that the search resulted in the seizure of "pornographic products" from the diplomat's residence. According to Belarusian media, the incident involved Reimo Smits, second secretary of the Latvian Embassy in Minsk. JM
((("Reimo Smits." If Belarus went to such lengths to splash him with gay-paint, he must be a rather competent diplomat.)))
