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What’s Happening in Minsk? A Conversation with Belarusian Democratic Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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What’s Happening in Minsk? A Conversation with Belarusian Democratic Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Past Event
Hudson Institute
May 07, 2025
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Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya clutches a folder with a portrait of her husband, jailed opposition figure Sergei Tsikhanousky, on November 7, 2023, in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images)
07
May 2025
Past Event

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Democratic Opposition Leader, Belarus

Peter Rough Hudson Institute
Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Since the fraudulent Belarusian presidential election in August 2020, Belarusian democratic leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been the face of a free Belarus. Strongman Alexander Lukashenko’s regime imprisoned Tsikhanouskaya’s husband for voicing his own presidential aspirations and subsequently exiled her to Lithuania for spearheading large opposition rallies.

But Tsikhanouskaya remains a tireless advocate for freedom in Belarus and a forceful opponent of Russia’s war on Ukraine. She has also categorically rejected any deployment of Russian nuclear weapons onto Belarusian territory. “Without a free and democratic and independent Belarus, there will be no security in Europe. There will be a constant threat,” she told Agence France-Presse earlier this year.

In January, Lukashenko held yet another sham election that was neither free nor fair. Join Senior Fellow Peter Rough as he sits down with Tsikhanouskaya for a conversation on the state of affairs in Belarus and the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe.

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