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Nina Baginskaya
“Nina Bahinskaya on her ordinary Sunday walk with the flag“
BornDecember 30, 1946
NationalityBelarusian
Citizenship Belarus
OccupationGeologist


Nina Bahinskaya (Belarusian: Nina Ryhorauna Bahinskaya; born December 30, 1946, Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian human rights activist, public figure, and geologist.

Biography

Nina Bahinskaya was born in Minsk, Belarus, on December 30, 1946. From an early age, she was a competitive cyclist. In her younger years, while on a bike ride, she was involved in an accident that led to a collision with a car, which resulted in a head injury and post-traumatic epilepsy.

Bahinskaya graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, specializing in radio equipment assembly. Following her childhood dream of becoming a geologist, she graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Oil and Gas (Ukraine) as a specialist in oil and gas exploration. She worked as a geologist at the Belarusian Research Geological Institute (BelNIGRI).[1] At the same time, she became a member of the Belarusian Popular Front and created a local association of the Belarusian Popular Front at her institute.

Since 1988, starting with the requiem meeting on the Day of Remembrance of the Ancestors, she has been actively participating in various protests. In 1994, after A.G. Lukashenko came to power in Belarus, she was dismissed from the institute because her project's report was prepared in the Belarusian language.

She was detained dozens of times by police and spent many days in temporary isolation cells. On August 1, 2014, she was arrested for burning the Soviet flag near the KGB building in Minsk; her demonstration commemorated the August 1st, 1937, burning of tens of thousands of Belarusian cultural manuscripts, after which the authors of the work were executed.[2][3][4][5]

In 2015, Bahinskaya was arrested for protesting in memory of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, who died at the Euromaidan in Ukraine. After the events of March 25, 2017, when dozens of activists were arrested in Minsk (the “White Legion” case), and hundreds of participants throughout Belarus were detained on Freedom Day, Nina Baginskaya went out to the KGB building every day with a white-red-white flag and a poster that read "Freedom to the People."

On April 5, 2019, she took part in another protest. The point of this protest was to obstruct the so-called “landscaping work,” which on April 4, 2019, demolished 30 memorial crosses along the perimeter of the mass graves of those shot in the 1930s.[6] Pavel Sevyarynets, a politician and co-chairman of Belarusian Christian Democracy, and Nina Bahinskaya, who came with a large white-red-white flag, were detained.[6]

In 2020, Bahinskaya supported protests after the presidential elections on August 9. Because of her bravery, she became a symbol of the movement. She gave interviews to BBC News, as well as journalists from Sweden, Poland, Germany, France. Maxim Katz dedicated one of the episodes to Baginskaya on his Youtube channel[7].

In 2020, Bahinskaya became famous for her expression “I am just walking” after replying this to the riot police who attempted to stop her.

In September 2020, Bahinskaya was featured in the Italian Vogue magazine as The mother of the Belarusian revolution; she was photographed by Ivan Revyako[8][9].

Awards

  • 2017 - awarded with the Ivashkevich commemorative plaque.
  • 2018 - the first laureate of the medal named after Sergei Khanzhenkov (1942-2016), a political prisoner of the Soviet regime in the 1960s and 1970s.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Белорусский научно-исследовательский геологоразведочный институт".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "У здания КГБ задержана общественная активистка Нина Багинская, которая сожгла советский флаг".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Черная ночь белорусской литературы".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Репрессии 1937 года в Беларуси и пламя из рукописей в внутреннем дворе Минской тюрьмы НКВД".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ ""Только одна ночь", изменившая белорусскую историю".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b "В Куропатах снова собирались активисты. Задержаны Нина Багинская и Павел Северинец".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Katz, Maxim (September 4, 2020). "Нина Багинская «я гуляю!» и БЧБ (бело-красно-белый) флаг. Символы революции в Беларуси / Максим Кац". YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Bahinskaya, Nina (September 30, 2020). "Italian Vogue Publishes Photos Of Icon Protester Nina Baginskaya". BelarusFeed. Retrieved November 13, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Photographer - PhotoVogue - Vogue". www.vogue.it. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

Bibliography


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