{"id":128755,"date":"2025-03-05T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128755\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"russian-spied-on-belarusian-opposition-in-poland-report","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128755\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian spied on Belarusian opposition in Poland \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 5, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em> reports that Russian spy Pavel Rubtsov passed detailed information about the Belarusian pro-democracy forces to Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, in September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Polish newspaper, he did so after the launch of the opposition Coordination Council in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper says that he posed as a journalist and spoke with Belarusian activists, photographed them, recorded their conversations, and obtained the WiFi password for their office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It adds that he also communicated with the parents of Raman Pratasievi\u010d, a Belarusian blogger arrested after authorities forced a flight carrying him to Vilnius to land in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, Belarusian opposition politician Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka told Pozirk <\/em>that Rubtsov, identified by Polish secret services as a Russian agent, was handed over to Russia in a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubtsov introduced himself as Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez, a Spanish journalist of Russian origin; he was arrested in February 2022, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141atu\u0161ka said Gonz\u00e1lez had visited his National Anti-Crisis Management “at least twice” to interview him for Spanish media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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