Valery Kalinovskiy is a correspondent in RFE/RL's Belarus Service.
For years Paval Latushka was a devoted politician and civil servant, serving in various government roles and diplomatic positions abroad. Now, he's a key member of the Belarusian opposition -- and his defection has attracted the attention of the country's embattled president himself.
Yanina Grintsevic Stashko was born in France to Belarusians who emigrated there during the Great Depression, but she left France forever when her parents -- like thousands of others -- decided to return to Stalin's Soviet Union.
