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New Wednesday of New Times by Peter Uj.
I’m interested
Officially, it is still unknown what happened to Belarusian opposition leader Marija Kolesznyikova after eyewitnesses masked men in a van in central Minsk on Monday.
The BBC now writes, according to a border guard, that Koleshnikova, along with two other opposition leaders, was driven in a BMW to the Ukrainian border, where they first sped up and then Kolesznyikova once “found herself out of the car.” According to the source, they just pushed him and then the car continued to Ukraine. Kleshnikova has been detained ever since. Sources from the Ukrainian border control confirmed that only the two opponents arrived. They were detained until a decision was made on their fate. The Belarusian Interior Ministry says it is not aware that any opposition will be arrested.
Update (11:27): According to Ukrainian sources, writes The Guardian, Kolesznikova tore up her passport so that they cannot be transferred to the border. Ukraine’s deputy interior minister wrote on Facebook that the opposition leader had successfully prevented her from being forcibly removed from her home country. A spokesman for the Belarusian border guard confirmed to Reuters that Kolynynikova was in detention.
Before the elections, Kolesznyikova was the banker’s campaign manager, Viktar Babarika, who seemed the most likely, and then, after being overthrown, aided her successor, President Vyachanana Cihanouszkaya. Recently, however, it seems to be assuming more and more opposition leadership, we write about it.
Last week, he also stood in person in front of the OMON barricade that was protecting the Lukaesenka presidential palace. He showed heart, told them: “Take care, boys, we are going to save you” and asked them: “Doesn’t your boss want to talk to me?”
In the elections, three women competed against President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, of whom only Koleshnikova is in Belarus. Cihanouszkaja is in Lithuania and Veronika Ceplako is in Poland.
“You have to be here to understand exactly what is going on,” Koleshnikova told the BBC a month ago. She said about the massive protests that had erupted for weeks due to electoral fraud, not motivated by the acquisition of power, but by the fight for human dignity. She deliberately missed the bodyguards because she thought they would be useless anyway as soon as a riot police team showed up. “We know what a police state can do.”
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