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Volha Nikalaichyk: I Want To Look Buyer Of Nina Bahinskaya’s Country House In Eye

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Volha Nikalaichyk: I Want To Look Buyer Of Nina Bahinskaya’s Country House In Eye
VOLHA NIKALAICHYK
PHOTO: RADIO SVABODA

A picket against selling Nina Bahinskaya’s country house took place in Smaliavichy.

Belarusian director Volha Nikalaichyk and human rights defender Natallia Harachka-Basalyha arrived to the picket to support civil activist Nina Bahinskaya, whose seized country house was placed on auction today. Volha Nikalaichyk was detained by police during the picket.

The website charter97.org contacted Volha Nikalaichyk and found out the details of the event.

- A policeman in uniform took me away from the picket. He said his surname was Ivanov but he had no badge on. He kept asking who allowed us to hold this picket and demanded to show the documents. Then I showed him my identification card of the REP trade union, as I do not trust the police enough to let them take my passport anymore. Usually, all Minsk policemen were satisfied with this card, but “Mr. Ivanov” told me I should come to the police department with him. I refused but he threatened that “helpers would come” and take me there anyway. I left my things to the friends and came with him. When we approached the police department, he gave my identification card to his colleague. He sort of lost courage, looked at me, read the card and said he had enough information and that I could go. So, they failed to detain me, - Volha Nikalaichyk has said.

- Tell us about the picket that you held in Smaliavichy.

- There were three of us at the picket: me, Nina Bahinskaya and Natallia Harachka-Basalyha. However, they kept urging us “to stop this mass event”. We were standing in the center of Smaliavichy, near the administration building which had this Soviet occupation flag on it. Nina Bahinskaya was standing there with a white-red-white flag, I was holding a poster. We had been standing like that for some ten minutes, and then the auction for selling the country house started.

We came to the Enforcement Department and they told us there that the auction had been called off as the buyer had failed to arrive.

I think that the buyer is some specific person, a “crony”, as they assessed the country house for just Br 100 million, although the market value of the piece of land and the building is no less than $ 20 thousand.

We will continue supporting Nina Bahinskaya and will come to the auction to look in the eye of the buyer of her country house – this bargain is illegal and he will lose his purchase anyway.

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