Volha Mikalaichyk wins Viktar Ivashkevich prize


Volha Mikalaichyk has been awarded by activists of the Belarusian Popular Front party and the Tell the Truth campaign with national award for the protection of human rights named after Viktar Ivashkevich.

Last year, the public activist and director Volha Mikalaichyk took part in the performance near the Russian Embassy in Minsk. She brought there women’s makeup, which had been allegedly left behind by the pro-Putin bikers Night Wolves during the motocross through Belarus.

 Viktar Ivashkevich died on October 3, 2013 at 55. Since the beginning of 1980s, Viktar Ivashkevich was an activist of the youth movement and participant of the first semi-underground independent communities “MAystrounya” and “Talaka”. He was a member of the Belarusian People’s Front since 1988.

He was many times arrested. He was editor of the newspaper “Rabochy”. In October 2002, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for publishing an article “A thief must be in prison” in which prosecutors saw slandering of the Belarus head of state.

He was BPF deputy head until 2009. Until February 2011, he was head of the Minsk city organization of the Belarusian Popular Front.

The BPF and Tell the Truth also held a campaign dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Belarus Sovereignty Declaration.

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