Belarus: Who is Mr Milinkevich?

Who is Mr Milinkevich? If you do not know, you are welcome to ask me.

This is a guy in Belarus who was sponsored by the West to sort of make Belarusian opposition join together and win presidential election. Yet, when the polling in this country was over, it got clear that Mr Milinkevich is an outright lay figure in politics. According to official election results, Milinkevich was only able to get 2 per cent of votes which means he was completely overwhelmed by his competitor Lukashenko. That's a bitter truth - Mr Milinkevich is a complete nobody, he is politically dead and all the money he got from the West must have stuck to his hands rather than be used to organize a worthful election campaign.

However, for some reason Lithuanian authorities still keep agitating European Union to go on supporting Mr Milinkevich and allot him some more money to proceed the election struggle. This is ridiculous. What do they build upon? Perhaps they have some future plans relating Byelorussia and Milinkevich himself. And they are exploiting EU with the aim.