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00:00:00And I spent half a year there.
00:00:20Get inside,
00:00:21bitch.
00:00:33a huge number of people in small
00:00:35areas,
00:00:43the sun practically never enters, because
00:00:47there are metallic bars
00:00:49on the windows, like blinds, which essentially
00:00:53don't allow light through, only give a little light for
00:00:57existence and...
00:01:12I'm a Belarusian blogger, "Narodny Reporter" channel,
00:01:15I was Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's
00:01:18press secretary, and before the elections I was
00:01:21arrested. It's very difficult
00:01:24to explain what Volodarka is, well, firstly, it's a building from 1825,
00:01:28and secondly, it hasn't been renovated
00:01:31for a long time. All the walls are shabby,
00:01:35dirty, black. I was initially in a very small cell
00:01:38for two people, meaning this cell is about 2x2 meters.
00:01:42I spent 3 months there, then after
00:01:453 months I was transferred to a larger cell,
00:01:49there were 12 people there, plus there were a lot of cockroaches, meaning they were
00:01:52everywhere. You couldn't leave food on
00:01:56the table, they were like...
00:02:30they fed us in such a way that we couldn't die.
00:02:44Forget about fruits and vegetables.
00:02:48Do you know what scurvy is?
00:02:50No, we have no idea. Your teeth
00:02:53will fall out, your wounds won't heal, you'll
00:02:57weaken.
00:03:03It's like there's a presumption of innocence, you're
00:03:06not guilty yet, by presumption, but you're already
00:03:10spending your time in
00:03:12such a, truly very harmful
00:03:16place for health and psyche.
00:03:17If a person ends up in a pre-trial detention center,
00:03:25most likely he, he will be
00:03:27recognized. recognized.
00:04:00freedom in an open type colony, I was given
00:04:042 years of chemistry,
00:04:08it is a relic of the Soviet Union.
00:04:12There we had to manually, essentially, like in the 19th century
00:04:15or in the early 20th century,
00:04:18serve these animals, which would then be
00:04:21sent to the
00:04:23meat processing plant.
00:04:26that phones are allowed in chemistry.
00:05:42I walked out, well, at first, the first
00:05:46hour was fine
00:05:48to walk, the second hour was difficult
00:05:52to walk, the Belovezha Forest
00:05:54began, the third hour was already
00:05:57difficult, and I arrived after the taps, this
00:06:01was at 10
00:06:05o'clock
00:06:05approximately.
00:06:51This is what the clothes look like
00:06:55in which people are held in the colony in
00:06:58Shizo.
00:07:01The colony administration made a big mistake by releasing
00:07:05us, political prisoners, to freedom
00:07:08in such attire. But now the world can see...
00:08:12a little bit of the cells, they weren't
00:08:14stung,
00:08:183 years, I had to spend in a
00:08:21Belarusian colony.
00:08:25I was very, very pleased when I was in
00:08:28the colony and my mom showed me that a
00:08:32girl had drawn a flag with the names of all the
00:08:35political prisoners, and I went to my
00:08:38girls in the colony, everyone was so happy that in fact...
00:10:15I already had a yellow tag on me, all political prisoners walk with a
00:10:19yellow tag, this is the tenth registration, extremism
00:10:22and other destructive activity.
00:10:55work in the colony, they get a salary, but
00:10:58these payments are quite ridiculous, like a dollar or two a
00:11:02month. My salary was a
00:11:03month, I received 80
00:11:07kopecks. They explained
00:11:10it by saying that what we earn goes towards our
00:11:14upkeep.
00:11:17you are obliged to fulfill the norm, if not, violation, salary goes to pay
00:11:20bills, water, electricity, food, you are not
00:11:24living here for... free:
00:11:27I studied at the Academy of Arts, in the design
00:11:31faculty. In 2020, we
00:11:33started going to student protests. The KGB
00:11:37detained us. We were given 2 and a half
00:11:40years. There are only two women's
00:11:43colonies. The colony as a whole
00:11:46has about 2,000 prisoners.
00:11:49In each detachment, at least a third
00:11:53of the prisoners who... work for operational
00:11:57officers.
00:12:07there are some who
00:12:10still remain human during their
00:12:13stay, and there are those who immediately start
00:12:16working for the staff
00:12:19from the start. When I got to the colony, we found out
00:12:22that there's someone watching over every political prisoner
00:12:26in the detachment.
00:12:30Be careful what you say in the barracks. A separate
00:12:34prisoner watches over every political prisoner, and he
00:12:37reports everything to the guards.
00:12:39He collects all information that might somehow pertain to any
00:12:43violations. Ivanovna gave a cigarette at 4
00:12:46PM on Thursday. This is a violation. The guys
00:12:49who couldn't keep their mouths shut, who were constantly
00:12:53criticizing.
00:13:55What's this, look what's drawn here?
00:14:07various human rights organizations are probably already
00:14:11familiar with, due to their activities, let's say,
00:14:14they talk about the hellish conditions of detention in Belarusian colonies. I
00:14:18will ask you to give me a small tour, to show how you
00:14:21live, possibly, if you...
00:14:55they simply broke them. They have a large arsenal of
00:14:58how to break people. This Stalinist system
00:15:01simply made this person
00:15:03into a liar,
00:15:07but it's not his
00:15:08fault.
00:15:11So there is indeed
00:15:13no task to preserve
00:15:17the health of the prisoner. There are three meals a day, but it is
00:15:21very unbalanced. It is necessary
00:15:24to understand that there is special food, usually
00:15:27it is very carbohydrate-rich porridge and
00:15:30stew. A person on such a diet
00:15:33does not receive a sufficient amount of the necessary elements.
00:15:38people who have been there for a very long time, their teeth just
00:15:41fell out. I practically starved for a whole year.
00:15:44At first, they didn't let me eat or sleep. It's impossible to eat
00:15:48in the isolation cell because, well, the food is different, because
00:15:51the food they give in the isolation cell is not given in the general
00:15:55area. Then they deprived me of parcels for half a year, and
00:15:58accordingly, I somehow just scraped by.
00:16:02In the store that is there, I could only spend 70'
00:16:05rubles for the whole month. 4 rubles, to buy
00:16:09at least three apples there, that's already
00:16:1230 rubles. And besides all that, you need to buy
00:16:15hygiene products, you need to buy cigarettes, because
00:16:18well, the only thing that saved me was going out to smoke. For most
00:16:22illnesses, it's some kind of ibuprofen.
00:16:25Sick people go to work simply because
00:16:28political prisoners are very rarely given sick leave, then they get even sicker and
00:16:32there the process of getting sick lasts a very long time, it's very
00:16:36difficult to recover from it.
00:16:52Well, first of all, I had three suicide attempts in the colony. Secondly, I
00:16:55woke up every morning and wondered why I
00:16:58woke up. I was simply physically and morally
00:17:02exhausted.
00:17:09everything the operative said, the convicts did.
00:17:12They started pouring cold water on me at night, spoiling my
00:17:16food, throwing me off the bed, and this
00:17:20happens every day constantly. The first
00:17:23attempt was two or three weeks after they didn't let me eat or
00:17:27sleep. My brain generally stopped functioning, well, that
00:17:30is, I really fell asleep literally
00:17:33at the factory in the toilet, then at that
00:17:36moment... that is, who am I, what am I, I take a razor, I
00:17:40go to the washbasin, I just got ready, in short, at
00:17:43that moment one of my very good friends, I hope she will be released
00:17:47soon, she went after me then,
00:17:51she just shouted into my ear, what are you doing
00:17:55here, and I, in short, came to my senses,
00:17:59three times I, so to speak, got away with it, and
00:18:02well, I don't know, I don't know what it's
00:18:05connected with, probably it wasn't time.
00:19:32that you are about to be released, there is always distrust whether this will happen or not, it is unknown. I knew that I would be imprisoned, yes, and I just didn't know when and for what, but a former political prisoner cannot live peacefully in
00:19:36Belarus.
00:21:25what a modern
00:21:26war it is,
00:21:30these are just the names given by our donors, our angels,
00:21:33the rescuers led 17 people
00:21:37out of this house.
00:21:45attack on our
00:21:47history.
00:21:49carefully,
00:22:54ignoring
00:23:01the topic doesn't work, but actively discussing it,
00:23:04pro-government media don't dare. Let's talk about the availability
00:23:08of gasoline now, this also creates a certain
00:23:11background, nervousness. Regional media practically
00:23:15daily publish lists of gas stations where you can
00:23:18refuel and give advice. to save fuel, local
00:23:21authorities periodically introduce a "odd-even" system, depending
00:23:25on the car number of private car owners. Emergency
00:23:29services transport and the fleet of
00:23:32officials remain a priority. The reasons for the crisis are not publicly
00:23:35discussed in the media, using vague wording
00:23:38and so on. Work on controlling and stabilizing prices at
00:23:41private gas stations. Official sources attribute the fuel shortage to
00:23:45disrupted logistics and well-known political
00:23:48reasons. to finance
00:24:21the war in Ukraine, is actually falling apart.
00:24:24Military spending continues to grow, as does the budget
00:24:28deficit. According to official data from the Ministry of Finance, for January-August
00:24:31of this year, it reached 5.8 trillion rubles, or
00:24:352.5% of GDP, which is one and a half times
00:24:38more than the same period last year, 2025.
00:24:41According to economists' estimates, this year's deficit could
00:24:45amount to 9 trillion rubles. However, in the Kremlin,
00:24:48the deficit is called...
00:25:51two operational officers were present in the office, who were
00:25:55beating him. In fact, they dictated the text
00:25:58of the testimony he gave as a witness, despite
00:26:01being a minor. The girl was only 17 years old. She and
00:26:05five other arrestees were sent to a pre-trial detention center before the
00:26:08verdict was announced.
00:26:15Are you or Yeltsin
00:26:17to blame for the collapse of the USSR? I would say
00:26:20this:
00:26:29just imagine that Gorbachev, what I went through?
00:26:39There's so much horror
00:26:41in
00:26:43those materials.
00:26:50I turned and grabbed that kettle and drank it all
00:26:53at once.
00:27:00That's how it is.
00:27:33and tremendous effort, skill, everything, it's
00:27:37not that simple, and you have to, as
00:27:40they say, hitch up
00:27:41again, guys,
00:27:44people should know what is happening in the
00:27:48country, the thick-headed ones are big,
00:27:51he said,
00:27:54the leaves fall
00:27:55from them,
00:27:58the water will not carry them away, time shows
00:28:01that... at the end of their strength, I said
00:28:05what I said, but you
00:28:07didn't say anything, that's good.
00:28:20But how to work in exile, I don't know, I still don't really
00:28:23know. I had two main fears in
00:28:27life: prison and immigration. In the end,
00:28:31I left so as not to...
00:28:34I stopped communicating with many important sources because
00:28:38they support the war. Well, in general, yes, I really
00:28:41miss Russia, but I live with the full understanding that
00:28:44the Russia I
00:28:46left no longer
00:28:49exists.
00:28:55We have Sofia, there are
00:28:58books
00:29:00called: "I am a book
00:29:03of memory." This is all
00:29:06very, it was not easy for me to talk about
00:29:09it. The worst thing is that it was
00:29:13a suicide.
00:29:18We were all mama's
00:29:19girls.
00:29:28No protected person may be punished for
00:29:32an offense not committed personally by them. Collective
00:29:36punishment, as well as any measures of intimidation or
00:29:39terror, are prohibited. Robberies
00:29:42are forbidden. Reprisals against
00:29:45protected persons and their property are forbidden. You