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The charismatic elderly opposition woman

Nina Bahinskaya

was arrested in Minsk during the peaceful protest organized by Belarusian women every Saturday.

Officers dragged her to a police van yesterday, but later released her.

According to journalist Hanna Liubakova, Bahinskaya immediately went to the police station to protest for the rest of the people arrested that day: more than 400, most of them women.

The 73-year-old great-grandmother has always considered herself an "opposition activist."

For many, she is the "hero" of the street protests in Belarus

against the re-election of President Lukashenko, accused by the opposition of manipulating the last presidential elections.

"He will not go away by himself. He is a sick man. He is a psychopath controlled by the people of Moscow

," the old woman told the BBC this month.

His videos challenging the Belarusian riot police have gone viral.

In the most famous of all, the agents snatch the old Belarusian flag with white and red stripes - the one preferred by the opposition - and she hits one of the policemen, demanding that he return it.

She has also been seen blocking a police truck.

The energetic old woman has been demonstrating since long before the recent elections in Belarus.

She has been attending protests since 1988, when she demanded the release of political prisoners.

She also spoke out against the demolition of a memorial space for the victims of mass executions in the Soviet era.

In 2014 she burned a Soviet flag protesting Russian interference in Ukraine.

In 2017 she was arrested during a protest against "political repression".

In 2019 she was brought to trial for obstructing the construction of a restaurant in the area remembered in the memory of the victims, but when the judge entered the room she refused to get up: "I do not recognize this court, you are nobody to me" .

In recent years, he has paid about 20% of his pension in fines

.

In some cases, almost half.

Among the ranks of the opposition, some have proposed her for the Nobel Peace Prize.

According to the local press, at the age of 19, the activist was involved in an accident and spent three days in a coma.

She had surgery on her head.

Today Bahinskaya continues to lose consciousness periodically and has been diagnosed with "post-traumatic epilepsy".

Yesterday, during her arrest, she also suffered a brief indisposition.

Tijanovskaya's "interference"

The protests that continue in Belarus after the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko are especially intense on weekends.

For today another unauthorized demonstration has been called, the March for Justice.

But the tension also continues in the political sphere.

The participation of the Belarusian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Svetlana Tijanovskaya in the next meeting of the Foreign Ministers of European countries in Brussels is considered a flagrant interference in the internal affairs of Belarus, the Russian agency Sputnik told the Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoli Glaz.

The Belarusian spokesman ironically questioned the need for elections, "if someone can be appointed from outside who is suitable in all respects."

Russia has also rejected Tijanovskaya's role in the EU

.

For her part, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajarova, highlighted the need for the EU to "review its policy, as it could lead to an erosion of the international legal basis of world order, and in the case of Belarus it could hinder" the country standardization.

In the first days, the forces of order suppressed the protests with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and stun grenades.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, these mobilizations resulted in three deaths, hundreds of wounded, including more than 130 agents, and more than 6,700 arrests.

Hundreds of cases of torture have been reported, but Moscow supports Lukashenko

and has offered to help control the population.

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