Belarus presidential election: opposition candidate goes into hiding on eve of vote

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is challenging incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in Sunday’s vote, fled her home after police detained staffers

Belarus’s opposition candidate for president went into hiding the night before challenging longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday in the country’s most unpredictable election in a generation.

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