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Who Is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s Unlikely Opposition Leader? Who Is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s Unlikely Opposition Leader? When Svyeta, then age 12, arrived in rural Ireland from Belarus in the mid-1990s, it was her strong grasp of English and her kindness that stood out. One of thousands of children brought to Ireland by charities in the years after the 1986 Chernobyl …

Belarus Election: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Flees Country Amid Protests Belarus Election: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Flees Country Amid Protests MINSK, Belarus — The main opponent of Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the embattled president of Belarus, left the country early Tuesday as organizers of the biggest antigovernment protests in its post-Soviet history called for a general strike. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who ran for president in Sunday’s …