The actions of the Belarusian authorities pose an «extraordinary» threat to the United States, Biden said

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 US President Joe Biden signed a decree expanding the emergency regime for Belarus, a legal basis for sanctions, concluding that the actions of the Belarusian authorities against the opposition since last year's elections pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. the internal political conflict in Belarus does not contain a list of new restrictions that are introduced by the relevant American departments, but lists new criteria for them. The KGB of Belarus accused the United States of organizing protests «I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, hereby expand the scope of the national state of emergency declared by Decree 13405 of June 16, 2006, establishing that the harmful activities of the Belarusian regime and a long series of violations aimed at suppressing democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus … pose an unusual and extreme threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, «the document says. Among the reasons for the tightening of the emergency regime, Biden mentions the persecution of the opposition and civil society structures that followed last year's elections, which the United States considers «fraudulent», as well as the May incident with the landing of an international flight at the Minsk airport and the arrest of opposition journalist Roman Protasevich. Former presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya visited the United States. As part of her trip to Washington, she met with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and then with the owner of the White House, Joe Biden. Subsequently, she stated that she hoped for the «strongest» US sanctions against the Belarusian authorities. Tikhanovskaya advocated the «strongest» US sanctions against Belarus