Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian political activist. After standing as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election against the president Alexander Lukashenko, she has led the political opposition to his authoritarian rule through an oppositional government operating from Lithuania and Poland.
Tsikhanouskaya in 2021
Tsikhanouskaya at a rally in Vitebsk on 24 July 2020
Protests in the center of Minsk, 16 August 2020
Tsikhanouskaya addresses the European Parliament in 2021
2020 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August.
Image: Alexander Lukashenko 2020
Image: Svjatlana Cichanouská, Praha, 7.6.2021
Street banner in Minsk with the date of the election. "9 жніўня 2020 ВЫБAPЫ ПРЭЗІДЭНТА РЭСПУБЛІКІ БЕЛАРУСЬ" (Belarusian: 9 August 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BELARUS)
Rally in support of Tsikhanouskaya in Minsk on 30 July 2020