KRYSTINA TIMANOVSKAYA is not your typical dissident. A track-and-field Olympian representing Belarus in Tokyo, she has never publicly criticised the government nor its despotic president, Alexander Lukashenko. Her crime was to complain on social media that her coaches registered her for the 4x400-metre relay without telling her. They took her to Tokyo airport against her will for a flight home.
Vitaly Shishov, the head of an NGO based in Ukraine that offers housing and legal help to exiles, went missing after leaving home for a morning jog on the outskirts of Kyiv. The following morning he was found hanging from a tree in a nearby forest. His friends claim that his face was bruised and his nose was broken. Ukrainian police opened an investigation, leaving open the possibility that his death might be a “murder masked as a suicide”.
Belarus has form when it comes to extraterritorial gangsterism. In May it concocted a bomb threat and sent warplanes to ground a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, two EU capitals, as it passed over Belarusian airspace. Roman Protasevich, an exiled dissident on board, was pried off the plane with his girlfriend and arrested.
A tottering dictatorship that borders three EU countries and fragile Ukraine is in a superb position to export chaos. Belarus also stands accused of sending Iraqi migrants across its northern border to Lithuania, possibly as punishment for providing a base in exile for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the opposition leader and probable winner of the 2020 election.
SecBlinken you might offer help to the This Olympian. 👇🏽
The Lithuanian population close to the Belarus border are desperate at the floods of Belarusian refugees crossing the border with no support from neither the Vilnius Government nor Brussels!
same like Putin's Russia. Putin murders oppositionists around the world. Only that the West does not want to fight Putin, but only to do business. Hypocrisy.
😂😂😂 Belarus is exporting chaos to Europe? How and your Saint USA who exported millions of refugees to Europe? Dare a dog speak up against it's master?
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Why is there still a safe place for Lukashenko ?
same like Putin's Russia. Putin murders oppositionists around the world. Only that the West does not want to fight Putin, but only to do business. Hypocrisy.
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