The man's voice is deep and distorted for disguise, and, in the grainy video footage, his head is fully covered with a black balaclava. "I am a former employee of one of the Russian special services," begins the six-minute video message. "The Russian Prime Minister Putin plans to kill the Belarusian President Lukashenko."
The video, while probably not genuine, appears to be the latest salvo in an increasingly nasty battle between Moscow and Minsk before presidential elections in Belarus. Belarusian authorities announced on Tuesday that the elections will be held on 19 December, when Alexander Lukashenko will seek a fourth term in office. Mr Lukashenko, who was famously labelled "the last dictator in Europe", has run Belarus since 1994, and tolerates little dissent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-the-viral-video-and-the-accusation-of-a-crossborder-hit-2080468.html