Meet SvetlanaTikhanovskaya the woman taking on “Europe’s last dictator” in today's Belarusian elections: Belarus BelarusVotes
people in Belarus have been holding their breath. As the country heads to the polls today in their presidential elections, many people in the country are daring to hope that change may finally be coming to the country, in the form of political novice Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.Belarus’ presidential seat has been held by a man called Alexander Lukashenko for 26 years.
Tikhanovskaya is a former English teacher and housewife with no prior political experience, so her decision to join the ballot was as much as a surprise to her as it likely was to Lukashenko.after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a popular YouTube blogger, was arrested after trying to register as a candidate.
Since making it on the ballot, Tikhanovskaya has become a symbol for candidates like her husband who have been barred from running.both have similar reasons for supporting Tikhanovskaya’s campaign; Tsepkalo is the wife of another would-be candidate who was forced to flee the country, and Kolesnikova is the former campaign manager of a potential candidate arrested in June.
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