The remarkable charisma and campaign of Alexander Lukashenko's three female challengers may mean this term as president turns out to be his last
Ms Tikhanovskaya's husband, Sergei, is a popular YouTube blogger. Maria's boss, Victor Babariko, is a banker. Both were jailed during the campaign.Veronika Tsepkalo's husband Valery, fearing arrest, fled to Moscow with the couple's twin boys
It is a fly-on-the-wall look at the spirit which drives them and which has so captured the hearts of their fellow countrymen. "People say that usually women are weak. Maybe we are. But when there is need, when our duty calls us and we have to be strong, we are."Massive crowds, like this one in Minsk in July, have turned out to support presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
Scenes of entirely unjustified police brutality make it clear why Belarus still deserves the name Europe's last dictatorship. "It's a country of total deception. On TV they say one thing and in reality it's different," she said. According to the Belarusian KGB, they had raised suspicions because they were not drinking alcohol as regular Russian tourists would.
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