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According to the information, Svetlana Alexievitch is in Germany. According to her staff, the trip is unrelated to the political situation in Belurs, where protests against the incumbent president, Alexander Lukashenko, and alleged electoral fraud have occurred since early August.
According to Reuters, the employee says that Svetlana Alexeyevich, who herself described the street protesters as heroes, plans to return to Belarus. The purpose of the trip to Germany must have been to work and have access to better health care.
– He has gone to Berlin for a routine medical visit, and then he will go to Sicily to receive the Etna-Taormina Prize, writes Aleksijevich’s Swedish editor, Ola Wallin, in a comment to Kulturnyheterna.
Svetlana Alexeyevich remains on the coordinating council representing the political opposition in Belarus, but it is unclear whether she will be admitted to Belarus again, writes Ola Wallin.
Protected by diplomats
After many democracy activists have been jailed, Svetlana Alexievitch has been the only member of the Bureau of the so-called Coordination Council in Belarus, a group that seeks to achieve a peaceful change of power.
Alexeyevich has been protected from the security forces by foreign diplomats who have been guarding the author at her home in Minsk.
