Tikhonovsky biography

Blogger Tikhanovsky: who he was and for what he condemned Bogdan Aleksandrovskaya in Gomel sentenced Blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky - 18 years in prison. DW recalls how he appeared in the political life of Belarus and why he became political prisoner. And everything was not in vain in history, our names have been included in history, ”writes video blogger Sergey Tikhanovsky from prison in poetry for his song“ This Way ”, the clip for which was recently published in his blog“ Country for Life.

”This song became a kind of last word on the trial, which since June was held closed in the Gomel pre -trial detention center. Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison, Popov and Sakov, Losik and Tsyganovich - to Ty, and Statkevich - by the age of 14. The Belarusian media talked about him in May, when the Tikhanovsky “country for life” has a video that he intended to participate in the presidential election appeared on the YouTube channel.

The blogger himself was under administrative arrest for participating in a protest against integration with Russia in December - on the day of the detention of Tikhanovsky, dozens of supporters also took to the streets of Belarusian cities, which was a rather amazing phenomenon for the passive Belarusian society at that time. Fedosenko Summer resident of Gomel Sergey Tikhanovsky on his YouTube channel "Country for Life" called himself a Belarusian entrepreneur and blogger.

At the time of his arrest, his channel totaled about thousands of subscribers - Tikhanovsky with his team in a car with the real news logo traveled around Belarus and met with its ordinary residents, who themselves told him about problems in the Belarusian outback and the country as a whole. The blogger also shot an interview with opposition politicians and businessmen. Before the appearance of the blog, which he started in the year, Tikhanovsky was engaged in a business in the field of video, he worked for some time in Moscow.

As he himself told, he was prompted by his blogger "indominate officials and criminal negligence." In the year, Tikhanovsky bought a house in the village of Ogorodnya-Ghothelskaya for dollars, an architectural monument, which wanted to restore and convert to a hotel with a cafe. A few years later, he said that he could not implement the project due to problems with the bureaucracy.

According to the blogger, he was asked by subscribers themselves to participate in the presidential election.

Sergei Tikhanovsky proposed boycotting the presidential election because at the time of registration of initiative groups of potential presidential candidates Sergei Tikhanovsky himself was under arrest, the Central Election Commission of Belarus refused to accept his documents from his wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and instead of her husband, Svetlana herself joined the election campaign.

This news was a shock for him, Sergey Tikhanovsky admitted on May 20, when he was unexpectedly released from the insulator, and Deutsche Welle managed to take an exclusive interview from him a couple of hours after the release. Boguslawskaja, as Tikhanovsky said, his wife will play only a nominal role in his election campaign, which is to use the legitimate possibilities of meetings with Belarusians to prepare the boycott of the presidential election.

In an interview for DW, among other things, Tikhanovsky responded to accusations of relations with Moscow and Russian financing of his activities, which at that time were actively discussed in society and the media. If someone says this, something should stand behind this. They make stuffing constantly, they try to denigrate me. I am an entrepreneur, and did not invest much money in the blog.

In recent months, subscribers help the channel - buy souvenirs with our logos, raise funds on crowdfunding, ”the blogger said, emphasizing that he“ does not need Putin or Zelensky ”to raise funds for the election campaign. For the judgment of Tikhanovsky? During the week, that Sergey Tikhanovsky stayed out of place, he actively participated in the pre -collection The campaigns of his wife Svetlana - led streams from the collection of signatures for the nomination of her presidential candidate, on which at that time there were queues of thousands of Belarusians.

In the pre -trial detention center before the trial, Tikhanovsky conducted more than a year, he was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code: "Organization of Massion Riots" Art. According to investigators, Tikhanovsky, Statkevich, as well as Sakov, Popov, Losik and Tsyganovich they attracted in June, planned the organization of riots in Belarus during the preparation and conduct of the presidential election of the year.

In total, as the Investigative Committee believes, 25 people were included in the Tikhanovsky Group.With the help of Internet resources "Country for Life", a telegram channel "Belarus of the brain" of the moose, YouTube channel "Mozgon" Tsyganovich, they claimed the accusation, incurred social enmity and called for violence against state bodies. Most of the defendants in the "case of Tikhanovsky" according to human rights activists - about 30 people were already previously convicted.

No details about the progress of the court of the public are known - lawyers are under the subscription of non -disclosure, and relatives who are constantly on duty near the pre -trial detention center are not allowed into the premises where the hearing is going on. Instead of the last word, Tikhanovsky wrote a song in a year and a half that Sergei Tikhanovsky was in custody, quite a lot of significant events occurred in Belarusian politics - the presidential election, the results of which the West did not recognize, referring to falsification, numerous protests, several waves of repression regarding the opposition and civil society.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who used to be in the media as the “Blogger’s wife”, was forced to leave the country, became the leader of the democratic forces of Belarus and now continues to fight Alexander Lukashenko from abroad, constantly meeting with Western leaders. After his arrest, Sergei Tikhanovsky managed to give several interviews Deutsche Welle from prison. In one of them, he called the situation in Belarus by the "revolution of humanity" and noted that she "would not fade on its own." A year later, in prison, the blogger wrote DW that he categorically does not recognize criminal charges against him: "I consider them far -fetched and politically motivated." Due to the fact that the trial was held closed, the Belarusian public did not hear the last word of Tikhanovsky, but he found a way out: he wrote a song in which he expressed his view of the situation in the country.

The blogger writes that "let the prison, freedom is inside," and also adds that he is proud that he is a Belarusian. He understands that he is sitting without guilt and only in order to have the opportunity to continue to work to free his and thousands of innocent people, such. See also: A closed trial of Sergey Tikhanovsky: what do they think in the West?