Photo Fact: Chernobyl Way Hero Ryhor Farmanian Heading Column

The BPF activist’s bandage bacame a standard of struggle on April 26, 1996.

It was reported yesterday that Belarusian with Armenian roots Ryhor Farmanian, who had been an activist of the Belarusian Popular Front for many years, passed away in Hrodna.

It was Ryhor Farmanian who was pictured by the journalists during the clashes between the demonstrants and the police on March 25, 1996, in the times of the famous “Minsk Spring-1996”, holding the white-red-white flag, with blood on his head.

Belarusians publish photos of Ryhor Farmanian heading the column at the Chernobyl Way-1996, on social networks.