The embassy did not respond, so Sviatlana Kurs's family sought a way to transport her ashes themselves
Details have emerged on how the ashes of Belarusian writer and journalist Sviatlana Kurs were transported from Poland to her homeland, Belarus. The family resolved this issue without the involvement of diplomats, Belsat writes .
As Belsat learned, the writer's relatives contacted the Bureau for the Care of Foreigners' Graves (Bongo), which took on the task of processing all documents. In parallel, the family unsuccessfully tried to contact the Belarusian embassy — as a result, everything had to be done without its involvement.
The urn with the ashes traveled in the same transport with the bodies of other deceased individuals: in addition to it, there were several coffins in the vehicle. Bongo explains that coffins usually attract much more attention and require stricter checks and formalities. It was the firm's employees who transported the urn across the border and delivered it to Sviatlana's native village in the Lyuban region.
The funeral took place on August 22. Few people were present — only the closest relatives. The authorities were strictly against any public event.
The writer and journalist was buried in the Lyuban district, her grave is in the village of Bayanichy, where she was born. According to Sviatlana Kurs's will, her body was cremated, and the urn with her ashes was present at the public farewell in Warsaw.
Sviatlana Kurs passed away on July 19, 2026, in Warsaw after a year-long battle with an oncological illness. In the spring of 2025, she announced that she had been diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer.
Half were denied, a third were granted refugee status. August results of reviews of Belarusians' applications for international protection in Poland have become known 2626
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