Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, a key member of the opposition’s Coordination Council, has departed the country for Germany. Her assistant says she has left for personal reasons, and will soon return.
Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Belarusian to win the award. In recent months, she has become involved in the country’s politics, supporting the opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko. On August 19, Alexievich was elected to the seven-member presidium of the Coordination Council – an organization founded by former presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya with the idea of facilitating the transfer of power away from Lukashenko.
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