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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

January 2024

  • Alexander Lukashenko, 69, has ruled Belarus for almost 30 years. The country’s next presidential election is due to take place in 2025.

    Belarusian president signs law granting him lifelong immunity from prosecution

    Alexander Lukashenko’s law also bars exiled opposition leaders from standing in presidential elections

October 2023

  • Tor Band album cover – monochrome image of two sombre-looking band members wearing black T-shirts and standing in front of large crowd waving fists

    Belarus musicians jailed for up to nine years amid protest crackdown

    Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemns the sentencing of Tor Band’s three members

August 2023

  • A determined-looking woman in a suit gives a clenched-fist salute

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Belarus’s people are still resisting’: exiled leader calls for west’s support

    Letting the Ukraine war overshadow Belarus’s beleaguered opposition movement is playing into Alexander Lukashenko’s hands, says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

May 2023

  • Activist Raman Pratasevich is detained by police in 2017

    ‘I’m insanely thankful to the president’: how a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime

  • Alexander Lukashenko

    Images of Lukashenko released after rumours over Belarusian leader’s health

January 2023

  • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

    The Observer view on Belarus’s rogue regime and its ties to Russia

    As Belarus’s democratically elected president is tried for treason in absentia, she demands deeper sanctions on the brutal regime

March 2022

  • Alexander Lukashenko with a map purportedly showing Russia's combat plan in Ukraine

    Alexander Lukashenko has effectively ceded control to Kremlin, say opposition

    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko is ‘not controlling our military any more’

December 2021

  • FILE - Blogger Siarhei Tsikhanouski, wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus, gestures as he speaks to people gathered to sign up and support potential presidential candidates in the upcoming presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, May 24, 2020. A court in Belarus on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021 sentenced the husband of the country's opposition leader to 18 years in prison, six months after the trial began behind closed doors. The charges against Siarhei Tsikhanouski included organizing mass unrest and inciting hatred and have been widely seen as politically motivated. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

    Belarus jails opposition leader’s husband for 18 years

    Syarhei Tsikhanouski was arrested in 2020 as he prepared to challenge Alexander Lukashenko

November 2021

  • The Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, being interviewed by the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steven Barnett Rosenberg.

    Lukashenko says Belarusian troops may have helped refugees reach Europe

    Leader acknowledges it was ‘absolutely possible’ his army had a part in creating migrant crisis at Polish border

August 2021

  • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: ‘Belarusians weren’t ready for this level of cruelty’

    Opposition leader speaks to the Guardian a year after anti-Lukashenko protests began, as crackdown continues
  • Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya claims Belarusian officials tried to bundle her onto a plane home after she criticised coaches

    Belarus exiles fear the long arm of the vengeful dictator in Minsk

    The attempt to ‘kidnap’ an Olympic sprinter and the suspicious death of an activist are signs of growing oppression

  • 'We're on your side': Boris Johnson backs Belarus opposition leader – video

    The UK is on the side of Belarusian opposition leaders trying to bring down the tyrannical regime led by Alexander Lukashenko, Boris Johnson has said

May 2021

  • Composite image of detained Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich and his father Dzmitry Protasevich

    Belarus journalist’s father says video confession carried out under duress

  • 'Belarus used its control over its airspace in order to perpetrate a state hijacking, therefore the safety and security of flights through Belarus airspace can no longer be trusted,' said the head of the bloc's executive, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

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    Belarus hit with sanctions as world leaders react to ‘hijacked’ flight – video report

  • Police detaining Roman Protasevich

    The Guardian view on Belarus: a line has been crossed

  • Belarus news site Tut.by

    Rights and freedom
    Belarus blocks top news site in ‘full-scale assault’ on free press

February 2021

  • The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko.

    Lukashenko plans 'people's assembly' but Belarus reform unlikely

    President who won rigged election last August has backing of Putin and renewed threats

December 2020

  • 'They march for freedom': Belarus wins EU’s Sakharov prize – video

    The democratic opposition in Belarus, led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has won the freedom of thought prize

October 2020

  • Protesters around statue

    Workers and students in Belarus launch anti-Lukashenko strike

  • Belarusian police teargas a ‘people’s ultimatum’ protester in Minsk.

    Belarus protests: nationwide strike looms after 'people’s ultimatum' rally

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