In an interview with Lithuanian television, Belarusian presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, whom protesters consider the winner of the presidential election, stated that she did not wish to say anything about occupied Crimea, as other members of the opposition “do not want this issue to polarize our forces”.
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Vitaliy Portnikov: The issue of occupied Crimea should unite Belarusians
Russian military forces block access to the Ukrainian Navy base near Simferopol on March 5, 2014. Russian soldiers took over the Crimean peninsula with ease and have illegally occupied it to this day.
