@Bianca. "not to ommit all the "seminars" and "training" they attended abroad, including the costs of hotels, tickets and other per diem" - if Lukashenko, Putin, visit any country and that coutry pays for their hotel, it does not mean that country bribes Belorussian or Russian leaders and that way makes Belorus or Russia depend from itself. There's no point to exagerate. Under the communism the opposition in my country also received a financial & material help from abroad, but it was not the only source, also the support came from milions of citizens who did not accepted the regime installed in my country by force, the regime which was never natural for my compatriots. And I'm grateful that opposition and those who helped in destroying communist regime in my country, also from abroad, because thanks them the standard of living in my country is many times better than under the communism (of course being objective I must say that not everthing under the communism was bad). It is not a secret that certain Belorussian opposition leaders receive some support mainly from Poland and Russiam other countries. But the general source of support for the opposition comes from the citizens who can't accept the current authoritarian regime in Belorus. The point is that if the majority of Belorussians are satisfied with the Lukashenko's regime. If the majority thinks that living under the governance of Lukashenko is a paradise and they cannot meet anything better in their life or any different from the present situation can be only worse, the opposition has no chance to win. If the opposition cannot unite and is not able to prove that Lukashenko is a looser, he will never lose until his death.