Extremist resources do not show this. Ex-opposition activist told how fugitives live abroad

Olga Tishkevich. Screenshot of video from ONT TV channel July 29, MINSK . The former HEAD of the regional branch of the opposition party "People's Community" Olga Tishkevich spoke on the TV channel about life and work in Poland, where she lived after leaving Belarus, BELTA reports.

In 2022, Olga Tishkevich moved to Poland to live with her friend Natalya Papkova, an opposition activist from Brest. As reported on ONT, Natalya Papkova was repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility for unauthorized pickets and rallies, several times for being in a public place in a state of intoxication.ALCOHOL intoxication . She was placed in a psychiatric hospital. In January 2018, I left for Poland. After leaving abroad she converted to Islam.

“She laid out a rug for me and said that there was nowhere else to sleep. I’ve never been to Poland, and after being a Russian-speaking population, you can hardly understand the Polish language. She took me to the store and pharmacy. It’s just very stressful to be in a different environment,” - Olga Tishkevich admitted.

According to the activist, while looking for a job, she came across a website through which Ukrainians get jobs. At first I had to deal with packing parcels. I had to work 20 hours. “That is, you work for a certain time (in my opinion, 12 hours), then you sleep for two hours and go to work again. And this is for 600 euros. One day off - and it’s not a fact that you will get it. I stayed there for a week and left" , - said Olga Tishkevich.

The next place of work was a hotel, where Olga Tishkevich was cleaning rooms. “It was very difficult. Some American’s double room had to be cleaned in seven or eight minutes. I couldn’t do it. It took half an hour, an hour. I lasted about a month and a half and received about 500 euros,” she noted.

Soon Natalya Papkova invited Olga Tishkevich to Vilnius, where wooden houses needed to be painted. “This work was not as hard as cleaning. Because they chase you there. You make the bed, they shout at you in Polish, but you don’t understand and just smile. There (in Lithuania - BELTA’s note) everything was different - to another. There were Russian-speaking people. And if someone yells at you, you understand. And the salary was first paid 40 euros for 10 hours, then they increased it,” stated Olga Tishkevich.

Answering the question why extremist resources do not show the conditions in which fugitives live abroad, Olga Tishkevich said that the information there is carefully filtered. “Why don’t they show that people live in hostels? They don’t show that very few can rent an apartment. They don’t show that former journalists work in Bedronka,” said Olga Tishkevich.

She also drew attention to the fact that in extremist The media does not cover the fact that former opposition activist and propagandist Ilya Dobrotvor lives in a car. He went abroad with five children, and amid financial problems, he quarreled with his wife, to whom Ilya Dobrotvor does not pay child support. He works as a taxi driver in Poland and spends the night in the car.