Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is hoping to unseat Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader who has been called the continent’s last dictator, stepped up to the microphone, gazed out at the crowd, and apologized.
RFE/RL: The accidental candidate in Belarus who is trying to unseat ‘Europe’s last dictator’
Supporters of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya attend her campaign rally in the town of Maladzechna, some 70 km northwest of Minsk, on July 31, 2020.
