Alexander Lukashenko’s office reported on Friday that instead of the Apple laptop used by the Belarusian dictator, a “computer” made at a local television factory was installed in his office, Lenta reports.

Oleksandr Lukasenko presents the Belarusian miracle of technologyPhoto: video shooting

This is stated in the press release published on the website of the presidency of Belarus on the occasion of Lukashenka’s visit “Exhibition of Scientific Achievements “Intellectual Belarus”.

The communique states that, among other events, Oleksandr Lukashenko visited stands “where domestic computers manufactured by Horizont are presented and that “similar equipment has already been installed in the president’s office instead of a well-known western brand.”

However, journalists from one of Russia’s most popular news sites, Lenta, refer to the official Telegram channel of the President of Belarus, where it is said that Lukashenko previously used an Apple laptop.

“You guys are great. You have shown that we can do anything. And no matter how difficult it was, we did it,” Lukashenko told the Belarusian television company “Horizon”, which created a home-made computer.

Lukashenko personally presented the first “computer” produced in Belarus

During a televised meeting with Belarusian youth last September, Oleksandr Lukashenko showed off the first laptop, which he claimed was in Belarus, but repeatedly referred to it as a “computer,” a term more commonly used for personal desktop computers.

At the same time, he admitted that only about 12% of the computer components produced by the Horizon plant are domestically produced, promising that by the end of 2022 this percentage would increase to 30%.

“But the important simple fact is that [el există]. You can come and touch it later,” he assured, also noting that the laptop was made after Belarusian engineers “were tasked with going around the world and finding the best of what we can’t make — processors, software, etc. “. .

This Friday at VDNG, he said that the task of reaching 30% of domestically produced components has been achieved, and by the end of 2023 it will reach 70%.