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An Interview with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

After claiming a remarkable election victory over Belarus' long serving dictactor Alexander Lukashenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was forced to flee to Lithuania to save her family.

After claiming a remarkable election victory over Belarus' long serving dictactor Alexander Lukashenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was forced to flee to Lithuania to save her family. She's been in hiding for the last two weeks, now in an exclusive interview she speaks to the BBC's Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie.

16 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Aug 202019:10GMT
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Credits

InterviewerJean Mackenzie
Interviewed GuestSvetlana Tikhanovskaya

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