Belarus exiles fear the long arm of the vengeful dictator in Minsk
udf.byOlympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya claims Belarusian officials tried to bundle her on to a plane home after she criticised coaches.
Photograph: Piotr Molęcki/East News/Rex/Shutterstock It is a fraught and dangerous time to be a Belarusian activist 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 Kyiv, I want to tell people that I have no suicidal tendencies,” wrote Andrej Stryzhak, a Belarusian activist currently in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in a post on Facebook last week.