Since August, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Azarov has been both minister of the interior and spymaster. But not for an internationally recognised state with defined territorial borders; Azarov is part of an alternative government formed in exile by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who took over the reins of the Belarus opposition when her husband was jailed while running for the 2020 presidential elections. Working mainly out of Vilnius and Warsaw over the past few months, this ministerial team has been