FSB agents kill Belarusian activist in Russia’s Karelia – reports

March 7, Pozirk. Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers killed Belarusian opposition activist Mikałaj Alaksiejeŭ in Russia’s Karelia on March 6, the ASTRA Telegram channel said.

The FSB tried to arrest him over an alleged terrorist plot. Investigators said he was planning to plant a bomb at the Olonets city administration building.

Alaksiejeŭ is said to have moved to Russia in 2021 fearing reprisals for his participation in 2020 postelection protests. His second wife was a Russian born in Karelia. They had two kids.

Alaksiejeŭ earned a degree in Russian and Belarusian philology from Belarusian State Teachers’ Training University in the 1990s.

In 2020 he posted pictures from protest rallies and shared information about human rights abuses on social media.

The news comes months after the arrest of Siarhiej Jeramiejeŭ, a former instrument technician who had participated in a 2020 strike at the Naftan oil refinery in Navapołack, Viciebsk region, in Russia’s Omsk province in December 2023.

Russian investigators filed terrorism-related charges against him for allegedly planting explosives on trains to disrupt military deliveries from North Korea.

He is held at Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison.