Viktoryia Tabolich
The Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) has made an attempt to recruit Viktoryia Tabolich, a youth activist of the movement For Freedom, in the Department of Citizenship and Migration in Minsk.
Viktoryia says that she has been summoned to the department several times. She was asked about her friend who had lived at her place for a while and then left, the press service of the movement For Freedom reports.
“Some ‘Syarhei Ivanavich’ was present during two visits. He first said he was an employee of the department, but yesterday he unexpectedly presented himself as a representatives of some department for combating terrorism,” the girl said.
According to her, ‘Syarhei’ showed extraordinary familiarity with inner workings of the organization, including in the internal relations between members of the Movement. The conversation lasted more than an hour, then he offered the girl to cooperate with ‘anti-terrorists’.
“You may become our advisor, you’ve got an analytical mind,” he said.
The man did not leave any telephone number, but promised to get in touch with Viktoryia. Yury Hubarevich, Chairman of the movement, stresses that since a lot of new people joined the organization, the KGB has ben trying to exert pressure on them.
Mr Hubarevich vows support to activists who have found themselves in such a situation and recommends revealing and publishing the chekists’ attempts to recruit them.
“The KGB had better deal with ‘Russian world’ organizations which breed in large numbers in Belarus otherwise one day the ‘almighty’ agency wakes up to the Russian tricolor being put on the KGB HQ on Independence Avenue,” the politician warned.
