It is a fraught and dangerous time to be a Belarusian rights advocate or dissident abroad, where the scrambling of a MiG-29 to ground a Ryanair plane, the abortive “kidnapping” of an Olympic sprinter and a possible “murder disguised as suicide” in Ukraine have been met darkly by the growing community of Belarusian exiles.
“Considering the events in Kiev, I want to tell people that I have no suicidal tendencies,” Andrej Stryzhak, a Belarusian rights advocate in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, wrote on Facebook last week. “We have heightened our security measures and no matter what situation develops, we will
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