Exiled journalist Miełkazioraŭ dies aged 37

December 21, Pozirk. Popular exiled Belarusian journalist Mikita Miełkazioraŭ died last night at the age of 37, blogger Alaksandar Ivulin said on Instagram without disclosing the circumstances of his death.

A fundraiser for the family of the deceased journalist has been launched on Buymeacoffee.

Miełkazioraŭ moved to Warsaw after the crackdown on 2020 postelection protests in Belarus, where he founded and hosted the Zhizn-Malina project on YouTube featuring interviews with prominent Belarusians. The channel has nearly 100,000 followers and is deemed extremist content by the Belarusian authorities.

Miełkazioraŭ also collaborated with the Warsaw-based Belsat TV channel.