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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Byalyatski chose to return to his native Belarus despite warnings he faced jail there in order to help civil society by distributing international aid donations, a friend of the human rights activist said. Byalyatski won the prize alongside Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties on Friday in what will be seen by many as a condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. “He said – I have committed no crime,” Vytis Jurkonis, head of the Vilnius office of…