Activist Whose NGO Helped Olympian's Husband Escape Belarus Found Dead in Kiev

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Activist Whose NGO Helped Olympian’s Husband Escape Belarus Found Dead in Kiev
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Ukrainian police are investigating the death of Vitaly Shishov, whose NGO just helped the partner of Belarus Olympian Krystsina Tsimanouskaya get away from the Lukashenko regime.
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large
Updated Aug. 03, 2021 7:07AM ET / Published Aug. 03, 2021 7:00AM ET


An activist whose NGO just helped the husband of a Belarus Olympian who defected to Poland escape to Ukraine has been found hanged in a park in Kiev.

Vitaly Shishov, whose Belarus House in Ukraine has helped many dissidents who find themselves in the sights of autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko get to safety, left Belarus in 2020 after feeling threatened after the widely disputed election results and vicious crackdown. Shishov had been warned by both Ukrainian officials and his allies in Belarus that the group was under surveillance and subject to “various provocations, including kidnapping and liquidation.” He had told friends that recently on his daily run, he had been approached by strangers and had noticed surveillance.

His death, which is being investigated by Ukrainian officials as either a murder or suicide, comes one day after sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya accepted asylum from Poland after refusing to board a flight to Minsk after the Belarus Olympics team pulled her from competition because she complained about her coach on social media. Tsimanouskaya’s husband, Arseniy Zdanevich, also an athlete, immediately fled to Ukraine on Sunday with the help of Belarus House, according to media reports.

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1. The future of america if dems dont get their sht together

[2naSalit]

2. Yup. ...nt

[bullwinkle428]

3. Thank you. Most Americans haven't the slightest clue in terms of

grasping what authoritarian rule is like.

[Wounded Bear]

6. The sick part is how many Americans want to give TFG this power...

[BeckyDem]

4. Damn.

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7. Activist Whose NGO Helped Olympian's Husband Escape Belarus Found Dead in Kiev

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[DFW]

8. Lukashenko is not known for his tolerance of dissent

He may not have Putin's resources, but I'm sure Vladimir Vladimirovitch has agents in place to do a friend a favor or two on occasion, and Lukashenko has certainly warmed to Putin in recent years. Enough noises have been filtering out of Moscow about a reunification (a good friend of ours was chief correspondent for West German News Radio there for years, and still gets the lowdown from some of his contacts there).

[cilla4progress]

9. Kick

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[poli-junkie]

10. We're kinda already there in our country

with rounding up BLM protesters in unmarked vans last Summer.

In the midst of the Olympics, I hope the media pay attention to what’s going on in these thoroughly repressive regimes. Is this what we really want in our country?