>"However, Oleg Bebenin's colleague and friend Andrey Sannikov said that he does not believe that Babenin commited suicide". It is not so difficult to understand why Andrey Sannikov feels that way. He is a pro-Russian presidential hopeful of the European Belarus movement and Oleg Bebenin worked for him. He appeared on the BBC's "HARDtalk" as an officially declared opposition candidate to challenge Lukashenko in the February's election. He is often criticized for not having a political platform and indicating in favour of street protests, "orange style", if Lukashenka is reelected. He believes Belarus under his presidency may be joining the EU in 2017. I've read many Belarusian messages of condolences mixed with anti-Lukashenka sentiments. It must be very painful for the family of Oleg to go through these accusations, speculations and presumptions. Whoever wants to believe contrary to the official cause of death should also think that neither Lukashenka, nor Sannikov can 'win' as a result of this tragedy. Lukashenka doesn't need another round of finger-pointing from the EU and US undermining his 'newer' image in the West, and Sannikov has just lost his lifelong political supporter. Unless there is a seriously sophisticated 'force' capable to divert Belarus from her EU partnership and multinational cooperation, the 'murder' assumptions don't look plausible enough.