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Belarus’s opposition leader says a ‘peaceful revolution’ is underway

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Exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has declared that a ‘peaceful revolution’ is underway in Belarus.  In a speech to the EU from Lithuania, where she is in hiding, Tikhanovskaya called on world leaders to back calls for free and fair elections to be held as soon as possible. The 37-year-old insisted that protesters are neither … Read more

Belarus’s opposition leader taking on the ‘last dictator in Europe’

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The woman trying to bring down ‘Europe’s last dictator’ is a 37-year-old English teacher described as an ‘accidental Joan of Arc’ who ran for the presidency of Belarus after her husband was arrested and barred from the ballot in May.  Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s unlikely rise to political stardom has posed the most serious challenge to strongman … Read more