July 15 at a railway crossing "Horobrovo" at the entrance to Orsha distributors were detained Russian flags. It turned out that people were spreading flags Borisov - Maxim A. Tikhonov, born in 1989, and Paul V. Inhabitants, born in 1977, both deaf. They are waiting for the court.

Nasza Niva communicated via chat with one of the defendants in the case, Maxim Tikhonov. Inconsistency in plural nouns, fragmentary responses can be explained by the fact that a deaf and dumb man. Here are his answers verbatim.

- You are engaged in spreading flags as a business or simply on the basis of their beliefs?

- Just for myself.

- And why Russian?

- I'm not only the Russian Federation. And Russia and Belarus together. This is not a fascist struggle.

- Yet in our country towards Russia or very "for" or radically "against." You are not faced with this?

- One man against in Orsha. People were happy to take the pins. They Asks, where the Russian Federation.

- A recent event "Ukraine-Russia" somehow affected the demand? Began to take more or less?

- I'm not going against Ukraine. We just have union of Belarus and Russia. I even get a lot of money than the factory.

- I did not mean it. As people recently responded to the political situation in Russia? They buy more flags? Or conversely, are disappointed in Russia and buying less?

- Sometimes bad is good.

- And how do you generally think it necessary to deal to sell Russian flags in our country? Or this may be something negative?

- It's just a decoration for cars. But I will be in court.

- But the court, as I understand it, for sale without a license? Sami flags here at anything.

- But we have a conflict. One of the buyers filed because of the Russian Federation, and I at him for what he had threatened and psyched.

- And the flags of other countries are not in demand? Have you ever thought about that? Poland? Lithuania? The European Union?

- They do not need. We only union of Russia and Belarus.

- And how do you think it does not threaten our independence? This, do not misunderstand, propagation of Russian Federation.

- I do not think so.

- And how much your flags cost?

- 20 thousand Belarusian rubles, and 5 thousand on food. Wholesale expensive. In Russia there make of Belarus and Russia.

- On the Internet there was information that you brought them free.

- There is no free. I wrote a statement that he went to Russia, where wholesale, and purchased.

- And you did not have a sense of fear in the sale? In Minsk are stories that are not all very friendly to sellers Russian flags.

- I would not selling a Russian flag. Only with Belarus and Russia. I have no fear.

- In general, the purpose of your business is a financial benefit or simply campaigning for "Russia and Belarus together?"

- Just for Russia and Belarus. For survival, not a business goal. I'm not so well paid. In the paper it is written that in order to survive.

- What are your future plans? Going to get a license and keep doing this? Or is everything after this story?

- By the end of summer and all. Only flags Belarus. Russian flags are no longer sold. I retire "VKontakte", as strangers write me. And unpleasant words.

In explanations Maxim behind the scenes remains the most important. Pins - it is Russian and immediately throughout the country - began handing deaf. Behind this idea and technology distribution, as seen, there is somebody in the security services of Russia. The one who first put the flags in the hands of the deaf. Demand for these flags had not been any. Have not yet begun to distribute. Habituating actually Belarusians to the presence of Russian flags everywhere.

Nasza Niva