From defector to defender a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime

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Raman Pratasevich young Belarusian blogger was arrested for two years, Nowadays he praises the regime he used to denounce. His last words before been arrested “they will kill me”

 From defector to defender a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime

Lukashenko for becoming a full-throated mouthpiece of the regime.

The boyish 28-year-old now playing  a new role: a penitent defector from the opposition who has denounced his former allies and now extols the benevolence of the Belarusian dictator, day after day.

From defector to defender a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime

“I’m insanely thankful to the country and personally to the president,” he said on camera shortly after his release. In a interview on state television, he apologised to the riot police who “defended the country” during the mass protests of 2020, the largest in Belarus since the fall of the Soviet Union, and claimed he had been ordered to stir up the protests to create a pretext for international sanctions against Belarus.

Franak Viačorka, chief of staff to exiled Belarusian protest leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who knew Pratasevich in Vilnius before his arrest. “And he achieved it.”

Pratasevich has sought to make an example, has sought to make an example

Last week, he said Belarus had begun to take delivery of tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, raising the stakes for any future protest in the country.

He added, however, that he did not want to criticise Pratasevich too harshly. “It’s difficult to pass judgment on someone who has spent time in a Belarusian jail,” he said. “They’ll just kill him if he stops doing what they want.

Latushka describes Belarus’s crackdown as a “conveyor belt of repression”, and lamented that international focus on the country had waned even as the west united against the Kremlin for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Pratasevich was not the first staunch critic to emerge from prison singing a pro-regime tune.

But there are thousands of Belarusian political prisoners, he noted, and just a few have begun collaborating publicly with the regime.

From defector to defender. He said. "I decided to think about two Raman Pratasevichs: one before Ryanair and one after Ryanair. After Ryanair, this Raman does not exist for me. A man who agreed to collaborate with the regime. The one before Ryanair is the one I respect.”

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