Lukashenko's health is rapidly deteriorating, and therefore there are serious discussions within the government about the transition of power.

Axar.az reports that reliable sources report that yesterday Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, Naryshkin, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, and Patrushev, the secretary of the Security Council, went to Belarus urgently.

The political elite of Belarus nominates different candidates for the presidency. The main candidates are Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, Speaker of Parliament Natalya Kochanova, former Prime Minister Viktor Myasnikovich and former head of the Security Council of Belarus, former Secretary General of the CSTO Stanislav Zas.