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Roman Dmitriyevich Protasevich or Raman Dzmitryevich Pratasevich is a Belarusian TV presenter and former blogger and political activist. He was the editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel Nexta and chief editor of the Telegram channel Belarus of the Brain.
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culture · Belarusian blogger (born 1995) · editor · journalist · blogger · political activist · editor-in-chief · political prisoner · dissident · also Roman Protasevich, Raman Pratasevich, Raman Dzmitryjevič Pratasievič, Raman Pratasievič, Raman Dzmitryyevich Pratasyevich, Roman Dmitriyevich Protasevich
Born 5 May 1995 · Q106949139
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Протасевич обратился к родителям- «Мам, пап, не переживайте». -- Пресс-конференция, полная версия
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“this guy did everything he promised to save his life or to not go to jail ... he confessed that he had done wrong”
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Public attention spiked: 7,564 Wikipedia readers in one day, 70.4× the usual 108, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Use the spelling 'Protasevich' consistently
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The New York Times: Roman Protasevich
Protasevich's relationship with Sapega eventually ended, and Protasevich married another woman in May 2022.
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Yahoo: The father of dissident Roman Protasevich says Belarus 'broke him' after video showed him praising the country's authoritarian leader on state TV
CounterPunch: The Taking of Roman Protasevich
Yahoo: Meet Roman Protasevich, the 26-year-old journalist with 2 million followers who was arrested by Belarusian authorities after his plane was forced to land
Newsweek: Belarus Dissident Roman Protasevich ‘Confesses’ on Video After Arrest From Diverted Flight
NPR: Why Belarus Went To Such Lengths To Arrest Journalist Roman Protasevich
Ran the Nexta Telegram channel together with its creator, Stsiapan Putsila
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That he had spent a year in Ukraine covering the war in Donbas as a freelance photojournalist
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Protasevich's parents moved to join their son in Poland in August 2020.
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Protasevich moved to Poland, and on 22 January 2020, he announced that he had asked for political asylum there
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Was accused of participating in an unauthorized event in Kurapaty, but he proved in court that he had an alibi for that day
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Studied at Lyceum of the Belarusian National Technical University (2011).
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Born 1995-05-05.
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Protasevich was born on 5 May 1995 in Minsk, Belarus.
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