"I’m here on this place by fate. I’m here only because I believed Belarusians that they want changes, and people believed in me. Now, and I’m doing what I can. You know, I can’t call myself the leader of the revolution because it’s everybody who is doing something is already a leader, because it’s impossible, you know, to organize everybody. People are self-organized. You’re right, I’m not going to participate in new elections. It’s not my aim. And I talked about this to Belarusians in the presidential campaign. My mandate is only to be with Belarusians till we bring our country to new elections."
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"A Conversation With Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya" in Council on Foreign Relations (26 July 2021)
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya or Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya (Belarusian: Святлана Георгіеўна Ціханоўская / Śviatłana Hieorhijeŭna Cichanoŭskaja) (Russian: Светлана Георгиевна Тихановская) (born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky was arrested.
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