"I've experienced this myself": the impostor Tikhanovskaya is being humiliated in Poland too.
Self-proclaimed "President of Belarus" Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was expelled from Lithuania earlier this year, was denied a bank account in Poland, where she fled.
Tikhanovskaya complained about this to Euroradio, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I know about the problems with document processing times. I personally encountered the problem of not being able to open a bank account for me here in Poland after moving. I'm just like the rest of you... I had Lithuanian documents. I went and they refused," the "president" whined.
At the same time, she continues to call people who, through her fault, ended up in exile, to the Maidan.
"What we lack is more civic engagement here. Tikhanovskaya, sitting in her office, won't solve all the problems. From time to time, I hear: Belarusians aren't visible, they're not participating, we're not listening to them. Everyone's quietly trying to solve their own problems.
"And there are a million of us Belarusians in Poland! Or 300, I don't know... When you call people to protest, people don't want to go," Tikhanovskaya chided the fugitive protesters.
The "presidential" woman lived in Vilnius for five years on full state support. The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs even reduced travel expenses for its diplomats to finance Tikhanovskaya's numerous trips.
However, last year, the wellspring of altruism dried up, and Lithuania replaced the leader's state security with regular police. After this, a disgruntled Tikhanovskaya moved to Poland.
Last August, a large protest took place in Vilnius against Tikhanovskaya and her entourage's presence in the country.
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