The swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia, sold her gold medal for $ 16 , 100 Dollars. This money will be used to finance the opposition that seeks to remove Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus since 1994
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Aliaksandra Herasimenia is a Belarusian swimmer who has represented her country in multiple competitions at the continental and world level. Interestingly, in recent days it was known that he sold, through eBay , his gold medal obtained at the Istanbul World Cup of 2012 . The reason for the sale is to support the opposition of your country in search of the departure of Alexandr Lukashenko.
Former world swimming champion Aliaksandra Herasimenia auctioned one of her medals on eBay to finance the opposition to the Belarusian autocrat Lukahsenko
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Aliaksandra is the President of the Sports Solidarity Fund. Through the c The Twitter account of this organization announced the auction of the award. “ The gold medal of the president of Sports Solidarity of Belarus was sold at auction ”.
Belarusian swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia sold the gold medal she won at the World Cup in 2020 to raise funds to support opposition athletes from their country, announced on Wednesday its foundation!
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Through the page where the medal was published, it was explained because the purpose of this fundraiser is to contribute to all the inhabitants of the nation . “With this auction I would like to help all Belarusians.” Initially the medal was valued at $ 3, 000 Dollars, but after a while the award was sold in $ 15, 300 Dollars by a buyer who preferred to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons.
Hostile environment in Belarus
Since the presidential elections in August 2012, have generated infinities of protests Massive events in Belarus, but these have been violently repressed by local authorities.
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“The black ribbon attached to the medal, symbolizes all the victims and political prisoners of Belarus ”, explained Herasimenia.
Aleksandr Grigorievich Lukashenko leads Belarus since the year 1994 . Since August last year the opposition declared fraudulent the elections of the elections . This political sector demands the resignation of Lukashenko and the holding of new elections.
