At the Riga Security Conference, we spoke to Franak Viačorka, a senior adviser to the Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The crisis in Belarus keeps coming up in the discussions of experts and politicians, and the regime of unrecognized President Alexander Lukashenko is mentioned as one of the main destabilizing factors in today’s Europe. A year ago, Tsikhanouskaya herself spoke at this conference, talking about the main task of her team – to hold new democratic elections in Belarus. So far, this has not been achieved – instead, the Lukashenko regime has only learned to nip any dissent in the bud.
Protests in Belarus
Hromadske: Interview with adviser to Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya
An opposition supporter brandishes a former white-red-white flags of Belarus as people parade through the streets in Minsk, on Oct. 25, 2020, on the final day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for their embattled strongman leader to resign after months of mass protests.
