BERLIN – Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s campaign promise for the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections was simple. She would win, organise fair elections, and resign. Belarus would become a European country like any other, free of the erratic despotism that has characterised the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has led the country since 1994.
“I want to live in a normal country where the rule of law prevails,” Tikhanovskaya told me from her team’s headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she lives in exile.
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