Maria Kalesnikava Explained

Maria Kalesnikava
Native Name:
Birth Date:24 April 1982
Birth Place:Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Minsk, Belarus)
Alma Mater:Belarusian State Academy of Music
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
Occupation:Flutist, political activist, conductor, music teacher

Maria Kalesnikava (Marya Alyaksandrauna Kalesnikava,, in Belarusian pronounced as /maˈrɨja alʲakˈsandrawna kaˈlʲɛsʲnʲikava/; Maria Aleksandrovna Kolesnikova, Russian: Мария Александровна Колесникова, pronounced as /ru/; born 24 April 1982) is a Belarusian professional flautist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus.[1] Kalesnikava represented the united campaign of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, then she became a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020 Belarusian protests in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.[2] She is also a founder of the 'Razam' political party.

Kalesnikava was kidnapped by unidentified law enforcement officers on 7 September 2020. Early in the morning of 8 September 2020, she was by force taken to the Ukraine country border. Kalesnikava was intimidated and pressured to leave the country, but while being on neutral ground she got off the car from the rear window, tore her local passport to pieces and went back on foot. On Belarusian territory she was arrested immediately. On the next day, Maxim Znak, Kalesnikava's attorney, was also detained. On 11 September 2020, Amnesty International recognized Kalesnikava as a prisoner of conscience.[3] She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2021.[4]

On 6 September 2021, Kalesnikava was sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony for her political activity.[5] [6]

She was last heard from on 12 February 2023.[7]

Early life and musical career

Kalesnikava was born on 24 April 1982 in Minsk to a family of engineers. She has one sibling, a sister named Tatiana Khomich.[8] According to Tatiana, their parents were deeply fond of music. They inspired interest in it in their daughters and in a certain way influenced Maria's choice of profession.[9] Maria studied in a music school, then graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Music as a flutist and conductor.[10] [11]

At the age of 17, Kalesnikava started teaching the flute at a private gymnasium school in Minsk. She also played the flute at the National Academic Concert Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus under the direction of Mikhail Finberg.[8] [12] She played on tours across Italy, Poland, and Lithuania.[11]

At the age of 25, she moved to Germany and enrolled to the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. She got two master's degrees, one in Early Music, and another in Neue Musik in 2012.[13] [14] [11]

In the 2010s, Kalesnikava performed at concerts and was actively involved in organizing international cultural projects in Belarus and Germany,[15] [16] for instance, she was one of the creators of 'Eclat' music festival.[17] Her other projects included 'Music and the Holocaust', school programm 'Orchestra of Robots', and a series of lectures under the title "Music Lessons for Adults".[18] [19]

In 2017, Maria participated in one of the first TEDxNiamiha conferences in Belarus.[20] She took part in creation of the 'Artemp' art community that hosted contemporary art events.[21] In the same year, she became the art director of the 'OK16' culture centre in Minsk.[11] [20]

Political activity

See main article: 2020 Belarusian presidential election and 2020–2021 Belarusian protests.

In May 2020, Kalesnikava became the head of Viktar Babaryka's presidential campaign, who was Alexander Lukashenko's greatest independent competitor at the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. When Babaryka was refused registration and detained,[22] [23] [24] on 16 July 2020, Kalesnikova and representatives of two other independent candidates' campaigns — Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (wife of Sergei Tikhanovsky) and Veronika Tsepkalo (wife of Valery Tsepkalo) — announced creation of triple alliance.[25] [26] [27] Tsikhanouskaya became their mutual candidate, she gained wide support across the country.[28] When Lukashenko declared himself a winner with 80,1% of votes,[29] the opposition refused to acknowledge the results and accused Lukashenko of massive falsifications.[30] [31] USA, Great Britain, Canada and 8 EU countries refused to acknowledge the election's results as legitimate.[32] The street protests and meetings emerged across the country, demanding re-election and Lukashenko's dismissal.,[33] brutally put down by law enforcement[34] [35] [36]

Kalesnikava in her interviews always emphasized that she wasn't any kind of 'protest leader' and never took part in the meetings' organization. In that time Belarusian opposition pursued the idea that all citizens were protest leaders and everyone was responsible for his country's future.[37] [38] She visited protest meetings as a private person, via mass media she asked both citizens and law enforcement to preserve peace.[39] [40] [41]

On 18 August 2020, Kalesnikava joined the 7-member presidium of Coordination Council.[42] [43] On 19 August, she was selected as one of the main board members.[44] [45] [46]

By mid-August Tsikhanouskaya and Tsepkalo were forced by authorities to leave the country.[47] [48] Meanwhile, Kalesnikava stated to the media that she by no means would leave Belarus because she felt it was deeply personal not to flee while her colleagues and friends were jailed under unlawful charges.[20] [49]

On 31 August 2020, Kalesnikova announced the start of a new political party 'Razam' that she intended to make a democratic tool to protect human rights in the country.[50] [51]

Arrest and repressions

On 7 September 2020, Belarusian media published the news that Kalesnikava was kidnapped in the center of Minsk. Her friends and colleagues could not reach her by phone. Later, witnesses stated that a woman was forcibly put into a black minivan by some unknown men in civilian clothes with covered faces.[52] In the morning of 8 September 2020, the news was published that the authorities tried to deport Maria against her will, she was taken to the Alexandrovka border crossing with Ukraine. Later, Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko wrote on his Facebook page, "This was not a voluntary departure. This was a forced deportation from her native country". The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus reported that at 4 a.m. she left Belarus together with Ivan Kravtsov and Anton Rodnenkov passed the border control and headed towards Ukraine.[53] State-controlled TV-channels put around the story that Kalesnikava was detained at the border cross when trying to leave the country and move to her sister in Ukraine.[54] In fact, as confirmed by the witnesses Rodnenkov and Kravtsov, in the neutral zone Kalesnikava managed to escape through the rear window of the car where she was kept, tore her passport to pieces, then headed back to Belarusian border.[55] [56] [57] [58] There she was immediately arrested.[59] Following these news, Bundestag vice-chairman Klaudia Roth promised to patronage Kalesnikava and help her via Libereco organization.[60]

On 9 September 2020, Kalesnikava's colleague in Coordination Council, lawyer Maxim Znak was also arrested.[61] On the same day, Kalesnikava's father, Aliaksandar Kalesnikau, was notified by the police that she had been jailed at a detention centre in Minsk.[62] [63] [64] [65] Through her lawyers, Maria appealed to the State Investigative Committee with the complaint that KGB and GUBOPiK officers threatened to kill her, they put a sack on her head and promised 'to deport her whether in one piece or in many pieces'.[66] Deputy Head of Department of Home Affairs Gennadiy Kazakevich personally told Kalesnikava that She will be in prison without teeth for 25 years to sew clothes for the security forces.[67]

On 10 September 2020, twelve organizations, including the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Belarusian PEN Center, released a joint statement naming Kalesnikava as a political prisoner.[68] [69] On 11 September 2020, Amnesty International recognized Kalesnikava as a prisoner of conscience.[70]

On 20 August, Alexander Konyuk, the Prosecutor General of Belarus, initiated criminal proceedings against the members of the Coordination Council under Article 361 of the Belarusian Criminal Code, on the grounds of attempting to seize state power and harming national security.[71] [72]

On 12 September, Kalesnikava was transferred from Minsk to prison № 8 in Zhodino.[73] On 16 September, the Investigative Committee of Belarus charged Kalesnikava with "actions aimed at undermining Belarusian national security" using the media and the Internet.[74]

On 10 October 2020, Kalesnikava's attorney Aliaksandar Pylchanka announced that Lukashenko requested a meeting with her to discuss changes to the Constitution, to which she refused in an expression of solidarity with other imprisoned dissidents.[75] On 8 November 2020, the press office of the Babaryka campaign announced that investigators had extended Kalesnikava's detention until 8 January 2021.[76]

On 6 January 2021, the Coordination Council announced that investigators had extended Kalesnikava's pre-trial detention until 8 March.[77] [78] She was transferred back to Minsk.[79] In the end of the month, on 27 January, the Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case against law enforcement officers who threatened to kill her.[80]

On 12 February, Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak were charged with "conspiracy to seize state power in an unconstitutional manner" and "establishing and leading an extremist organization".[81] Her attorney Liudmila Kazak was stripped of her license to practice law on 19 February by the Belarus Ministry of Justice.[82] On 9 March 2021, Viktar Babaryka's social media reported that Kalesnikava's pre-trial detention had been extended through 8 May.[83] Her attorney Illia Salei is under house arrest through 16 April.[84] Final charges in May 2021 included three articles of the State Criminal Code.[85] [86] [87] The defence refused all accusations and demanded to drop all charges due to absence of the event of a crime.[88] The investigation and the trial were held behind closed doors, the accused were prohibited to study the case files.[89]

For a year, in detention, Kalesnikava was denied visitors and couldn't meet her father.[90] According to Tatiana Kalesnikava, Maria wrote more than 150 letters per month while jailed, while no more than 20 were received by the addressees. The correspondences sent to her were heavily censored, as Kalesnikava received no more than 5% of letters written to her. She also was prohibited from getting a flute. A year without practice could forever ruin her mastery as a musician.[91]

Sentence

Starting 4 August 2021, after almost 11 months in custody, Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak stood trial behind closed doors in the Minsk Regional Court. The prosecutor demanded 12 years in prison for both of them. Maria pleaded not guilty and called any charges against herself and Znak 'absurd'. Throughout the investigation and trial, the details of the charges were not publicly disclosed. The attorneys of Kalesnikava and Znak were under a nondisclosure agreement.[92] [93] [94] Though the authorities promised to make the proceedings public, in fact the courtroom was filled with some strangers, foreign ambassadors who wanted to support Kalesnikava and Znak weren't allowed inside.[95]

On 6 September 2021, Kalesnikava was sentenced to 11 years in prison.[96] She is serving her sentence in penal colony no. 4 (Russian: link=no|ИК №4) in Gomel.[97] Both she and Znak refused to request for pardon because they believed they were innocent. They planned to appeal to a higher court.[98]

In a written interview, Kalesnikava told the media that in jail she was offered many times to make a movie 'Protasevich-like' with confessions and to admit guilt for her actions.[99] In her first interview after the sentence, given by phone to BBC journalist Sara Rainsford, Kolesnikova complained that in prison 'everyone smokes everywhere', and the prolonged passive smoking will forever ruin her chances to come back as a professional flutist. However, she says she regrets nothing and believes that the protests of 2020 were the beginning of a new era in the country.[100] [101] According to Kalesnikava, triumph of democracy in Belarus is only a matter of time.[102]

On 29 November 2022, Kalesnikava was hospitalized in critical condition. As stated by Babaryka's press service, she was put in a punitive isolation cell no later than 22 November.[103] In Homel hospital she was diagnosed with perforated ulcer and had urgent surgery. As mentioned by Maria's sister, she never had any problems with GI tract before prison. In isolation cell she was denied visits of her lawyer, had faints and hypertension. Only in hospital she was allowed a 10-minutes visit of her father, with three law enforcement officers present.[104] On 9 December 2022, one of Kalesnikava's lawyers Uladzimir Pylchanka was disbarred.[104]

She was last heard from on 12 February 2023. In August 2023, after no news about Kalesnikava for six months, 13 cultural figures wrote an open letter to Lukashenko demanding information with no answer.[7] On December 17, 2023, the Lev Kopelev Forum held a discussion in Cologne in support of Kolesnikova. The event was attended by former German Interior Minister Gerhart Baum, Kolesnikova's sister Tatsiana Khomich and former lawyer Lyudmila Kazak.[105]

Reactions to Kalesnikava arrest

Human rights activists and international community condemn Kalesnikava's sentence, the case is unanimously considered to be fabricated.[106] [107] The sentence is repressive and made as Lukashenko's political revenge.[108] [109]

Awards

Notes and References

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  40. Web site: ru . Колесникова призвала белорусов сохранять мирный характер протестов. Kalesnikava Asks People to Preserve Peace . Interfax . 22 August 2020 . 13 September 2021.
  41. Web site: ru. Соратница Тихановской Мария Колесникова приехала на митинг оппозиции в Минске. Tikhanovskaya's Supporter Maria Kalesnikava Joins Opposition Meeting in Minsk. Shuvaev, E.. Izvestiya. 16 August 2020. 18 August 2020.
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  45. Web site: Оппозиция Белоруссии избрала президиум Координационного совета. Belarusian Opposition Selects Coordination Council Main Board. TASS. 19 August 2020.
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  47. Web site: ru . Представитель Тихановской заявила, что ее вывезли из страны власти Белоруссии. Tikhanovskaya's Representative Claims She Was Forced to Leave by Authorities . Interfax . 11 August 2020 . 13 September 2021.
  48. Web site: ru . Год с начала протестов в Белоруссии. Что стало с противниками Лукашенко. Year Since Protests: What Happened to Lukashenko's Opponents? . RBC . 9 August 2021 . 13 September 2021.
  49. Web site: ru . "Это будет последняя ошибка Лукашенко": Мария Колесникова о новых целях оппозиции, переговорах с бизнесом и тревожном звонке в Москву. That Would Be His Last Mistake: Kalesnikava Explains Opposition's New Goals, Negotiations and Lukashenko's Anxious Call to Moscow . Forbes . 16 August 2020 . 13 September 2021.
  50. Web site: ru. Белорусская оппозиция объявила о создании партии "Вместе". Belarusian Opposition Launches New Party Named 'Razam'. Shuvaev, E.. Izvestiya. 31 August 2020. 31 August 2020.
  51. Web site: Белорусская оппозиция объявила о создании политической партии . Belarusian Opposition Announced New Political Party. TASS. 31 August 2020.
  52. Web site: ru . СМИ сообщили о похищении в Белоруссии Колесниковой . RBC. Kalesnikava Kidnapped in Belarus . 7 September 2020 . 13 September 2021.
  53. Web site: ru. Погранкомитет Беларуси заявил о пересечении границы с Украиной членами КС Кравцовым и Родненковым. Колесникову задержали. State Border Committee Reports that Kolesnikova, Rodnenkov, and Kravtsov Crossed Border. Novaya Gazeta. 11 September 2020. 19 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201019230238/https://novayagazeta.ru/news/2020/09/08/164149-pogrankomitet-belarusi-zayavil-o-peresechenii-granitsy-s-ukrainoy-chlenami-ks-kolesnikovoy-kravtsovym-i-rodnenkovym. dead.
  54. Web site: ru . Колесникова обратилась в СК по факту похищения и угроз. Kalesnikava Complaints on Abduction and Threats to the Investigating Committee . BelNovosti . 10 September 2020 . 12 September 2021.
  55. Web site: ru . Та, которую не смогли запугать. За что судят Марию Колесникову?. The One They Couldn't Scare. Why Is Maria Kalesnikava Facing Charges? . Deutsche Welle . 4 August 2021 . 12 September 2021.
  56. Web site: ru . Колесникова при попытке насильственного вывоза из Беларуси порвала свой паспорт – источник. Source Claims Kalesnikava Tore Her Passport to Avoid Deportation . Interfax Ukraine . 8 September 2020 . 12 September 2021.
  57. Web site: ru . "Через другое окно она выбралась и пошла в сторону белорусской границы". Как Мария Колесникова не дала вывезти себя из страны. 'She Escaped through Window and Headed Back to Belarus'. How Maria Kalesnikava Didn't Let Herself Be Deported . Nastoyashee Vremya . 8 September 2020 . 12 September 2021.
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