On the anniversary of the Belarusian presidential election held in 2020, “Delphi” spoke with the elected president of Belarus, Svyatlan Tsihanouska, about the protests, their impact on the position of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in the Russia-Ukraine war, about the prospects of armed resistance in Belarus, about repression, “Wagner’s” threats to the Baltic states, as well as the state of the Russian and Belarusian opposition in exile.
We remind you that Cihanouska became a candidate for the president of Belarus, taking the place of her husband, Sergej Cihanouska. He was arrested on Lukashenko’s order at the beginning of the election campaign. Sviatlana became president-elect on August 9, 2020, winning almost 80 percent of the vote.
However, the election results were falsified in favor of Alexander Lukashenko, and the mass protests that followed were suppressed by force. Thousands of protesters were captured and brutally tortured in Belarusian prisons. Women and those who spoke Belarusian were especially brutally tortured. Sviatlana Cihanouska and her associates, along with tens of thousands of protesters, were forced to flee Belarus and are now in exile. Svyatlana’s husband Sergej Tsihanouskis is currently in prison in Belarus.
Three years have passed since the 2020 presidential election. Protests were brutally suppressed. Belarus was drawn into the Russo-Ukrainian war. Now, after all these events, how does the outcome of the election and the subsequent protests, which at the time seemed to be a complete failure, look like?
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2023-08-10 21:02:02
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