Olga Tishkevich. Screenshot of the video by ONT TV channel
MINSK, 29 July (BelTA) – Former head of a regional branch of the opposition “party” Narodnaya Gromada Olga Tishkevich told the ONT TV channel why representatives of the so-called opposition report each other to the State Security Committee (KGB), BelTA has learned.
To begin with, the former opposition activist told the ONT TV channel how the elections to the extremist “coordination council” were held. “The wife of Vilsky [nominal leader of Narodnaya Gromada Yevgeny Vilsky] said that they were forced to participate in these elections. Nobody wanted to. There was voting in the chat and Vilsky said: “Which of you will be the kamikaze who will venture into this?” He believed that those who were not controlled by Tikhanovskaya would be destroyed anyway. In other words, Vilsky needed several volunteers just to keep up appearances for the Lithuanians,” said Olga Tishkevich.
The former activist herself was on the list of candidates for the “coordination council”. She admitted that she did not want to participate in the elections, but she was browbeaten into doing this by Yevgeny Vilsky. “He treated me like a slave, ordering me around, I had to clean the office or draw something. He acted like a tyrant. He yelled at me, humiliated me,” the activist said.
Olga Tishkevich brought up another extremist group, Cyberpartisans. There was an alleged leak about individuals who reported other people to the State Security Committee. Olga Tishkevich was said to be among those individuals. Answering the question whether that was true, Olga Tishkevich admitted that a friend asked her to do this. She remarked that it was pretty common for representatives of the so-called opposition to report each other to the KGB.
“It was done to destroy people. Statkevich had a group. Let's say, Avtukhovich said something bad about him. Statkevich would respond: destroy him immediately. And we were told to write in the comments that Avtukhovich had 'two unscheduled meetings' and that he works for the KGB. It was designed to frame him in a certain way. We even had a list of people who were to be canceled, said Olga Tishkevich.
According to her, after the story with Cyberpartisans, Yevgeny Vilsky said that this information would be checked. “I said that I was sick and tired of this mudslinging and that I was leaving the party. Then they called me to ask why I was leaving, who would draw their merch instead of me. I tried to bring home to him that I was leaving. I was tired of all that dirt. The Vilnius community has generally split into three parts. They are eating each other,” she remarked.
Olga Tishkevich added that at the moment, it is Yevgeny Vilsky, not Nikolai Statkevich who heads up Narodnaya Gromada.
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