Pinsk

After crossing into Belarus near the southwestern city of Pinsk last August, Mr. Neumann, 49, formally applied for asylum, according to state media.

To Ukraine’s north span roughly 100,000 square miles of wetlands known as the Pinsk Marshes.

Pearl Adler, gifted with neither height nor looks, grew up in the Russian Pale not far from Pinsk to a peripatetic tailor who considered himself a bit of a dandy.

Viasna said the searches Monday targeted civil society activists and human rights defenders in the cities of Brest and Pinsk in western Belarus.

Mrs. Schulman worked for a period as a photographer in Pinsk, in what is now Belarus, before the couple decided to seek entry into what was then the British mandate of Palestine.