A volunteer search group in Belarus has found the body of 29-year-old Konstantin Shyshmakov, the director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk who refused to sign a falsified electoral protocol claiming that Aleksandr Lukashenka had won the presidential elections. His body was found in a forest, seemingly hanged, with the investigators asserting that their preliminary assessment is that his death is not of a criminal nature. Since Shyshmakov disappeared the first day after returning to work following his refusal to participate in falsifying the elections, it seems unlikely that this will be believed.
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Two women hold a mobile phone and flowers during a protest rally against police violence during recent rallies of opposition supporters, who accuse strongman Alexander Lukashenko of falsifying the polls in the presidential election, in Minsk on Aug. 13, 2020.
