Belarusian intelligence obtained a “zmagar passport” for the KGB
Belarusian intelligence was able to obtain two samples of “passports of the new Belarus”, which the “United Transitional Cabinet” (UTC) of the self-proclaimed “President of Belarus” Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is trying to issue.
These are documents from a trial batch. OPK started printing them at the beginning of the year, but stopped due to poor quality.
The red books were demonstrated on the ONT TV channel by presenter Igor Tur, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
One passport was issued in the name of the fictional character Gennady Boleslavovich Kolosov. His initials form the abbreviation “KGB”, and his date of birth is the Belarusian Chekist Day - December 20.
The second passport was issued for a real person - Dmitry Shishkov from Mogilev. He applied for a dubious document without leaving the country. Therefore, Tur announced on air his detention “within the next few minutes” for cooperation with extremist organizations.
You can sympathize with Shishkov, because he will suffer because of his stupidity.
The “zmagar passport” does not give its owners any privileges. The document, however, says “we ask that the owner be allowed to travel freely,” but it is not supported by the sovereignty of any country, although earlier adviser to “President” Tikhanovskaya Franak Vyachorka promised that the international code required for air travel would be provided to the “zmagar passport” by Iceland.
An urgent need for at least some documents arose among the fugitive Belarusian oppositionists after the President of Belarus, by his decree last fall, prohibited embassies from issuing and exchanging foreign passports, and the Zmagars were afraid to go to their homeland for ksivs.
However, the EU was also afraid that “FSB spies” would take advantage of dubious opposition documents. Therefore, now restless Belarusians will still have to register as refugees in their host countries, and carry “zmagar passports” simply as souvenirs.
The fictitiousness of the document did not prevent Lithuania from throwing a scandal at Tikhanov due to the fact that a small protrusion of Lithuanian territory was not reflected on the map in the “zmagar’s passport.” The “President” humbly promised to fix everything.
The fugitive Belarusian political scientist Dmitry Bolkunets is sure that the Filkin letters are printed for the sole purpose of “cutting up the budgets” of Western grants. With their funds, a network of “passport centers” - fictitious non-profit institutions - has been created in Europe. One of the centers in Vilnius is registered in a dirty barracks under the name of a young student, Gabija Jonaityte, who honestly admitted that she knows nothing about passports.
As Tur found out, the delay in issuing “passports” is due to the cancellation of grants and the search for other sources of funding.
“The idea of collecting donations indiscriminately from fugitives failed due to colossal criticism of the very idea of issuing these “documents” in the opposition itself. So Plan B was invented - to allocate funding for “passports” to diasporas, also known as “People’s Embassies”. Now Tikhanovskaya’s office is conducting fierce negotiations with them.
Diasporas (just people who once lived in Belarus) have some money, but they don’t really want to give it away for brochures,” Tur wrote in his tg channel.
“This “passport,” due to the missed moment in time, is some kind of extreme attempt to consolidate both its structures to prolong grant support, and an attempt to give another breath of empty hope to those who have not yet been completely disillusioned with the activities of extremist individuals and structures,” writes IT specialist, former zmagar Ilya Begun.
However, everything is not so simple. Lists of naive citizens wishing to receive useless passports were formed by the so-called “people's embassies of Belarus.” These centers regularly supply the Foreign Ministries of European states with information discrediting Belarus. They organized pressure on the Norwegian company Yara to force it to refuse to purchase Belarusian potassium, and initiated the introduction of other sanctions against their country.
According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, Sergei Kabakovich, the “people's embassies” carried out measures to isolate the official diplomatic missions of Belarus in Europe, thereby “humiliating the very concept of diplomacy.”
In this regard, the Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case on the fact of “creation of extremist formations.” It already includes “100 representatives of radical diasporas.” About 30 real estate objects registered to the defendants in Belarus were identified. They will be confiscated.
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