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Recently, Maria Kolesnikowa (38) walked fearlessly through Minsk. Lukashenko’s opponent led the protest in Belarus, while her lovers had long left the country. Together with Svetlana Tichanowskaja (37) and Veronika Zepkalo (age unknown), she ran against Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential elections on August 9.
Now it’s gone. Kidnapped? Fled?
On Tuesday morning, the authorities announced: The opposition politician is in Ukraine. Early in the morning he crossed the border together with his colleague Ivan Kravzov and his spokesman Anton Rodnenkow.
The state agency Belta reported that Kolesnikova had tried to leave the country illegally. She was arrested. It was said that she was still able to leave the country afterwards. Your team has not yet confirmed this information.
Several Belarusian journalists write on Twitter that Kolesnikov has been arrested at the border; only his employee and his spokesperson are in Ukraine.
Fear of kidnapping
Since Monday morning there has been no sign of life from one of the most important leaders of the protests against the head of state Alexander Lukashenko. The coordinating council of the democratic movement, of which she is a member, assumed that Kolesnikova had been abducted by unknown persons in the center of the capital, Minsk.
The Interior Ministry said it had not arrested Kolesnikova. The council called for her immediate release.
Kolesnikova is actually a musician
Lukashenko has been cracking down on the Coordination Council for days and has arrested several members. The Council wants to achieve a peaceful transfer of power through dialogue. Kolesnikova is one of the main opposition activists who opposes Lukashenko.
Kolesnikowa is really a musician! In Minsk she studied flute and conducting. Then she went to the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart and stayed. He lived in Germany for twelve years and is fluent in the foreign language. Her friendship with the bank manager and art patron Wiktor Babariko (56) brought her back to Minsk: last year he convinced her to run the OK-16 cultural center in Minsk.
And Babariko also led her into politics. He wanted to challenge Lukashenko in the presidential elections, but he was arrested, as were the men of Svetlana Tichanowskaya and Veronika Zepkalo. The three women campaigned together and became icons. Our goal is victory. Our strategy: We unite all Belarusians, that is, as many groups of voters as possible who are against the current state power and vote for Svetlana Tichanovskaya. That’s our main message, “” Deutschlandfunk “quotes the musician Kolesnikowa. On stage, the women formed symbols with their hands: the sign of victory, the raised fist and a heart that became Kolesnikova’s trademark.
Lukashenko’s opponent wants to found a party
Kolesnikova was the only one of the trio who ventured out of coverage even after the rigged presidential elections, in which dictator Lukashenko reportedly received 80.1 percent. She appeared at protests and gave press conferences. She called on the EU not to interfere too much, and at the same time sent signals of solidarity to Russia. Her message: peace and democracy, not revolution.
Only last week he announced that he was going to found a party: “Wmestje” – “Together”. In his video message, he said: “Hundreds and thousands of Belarusians are ready to take responsibility and together build a new Belarus.” (SDA / kin)
