WASHINGTON — Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who was derided three years ago in the British press as a 'housewife with no political experience' — even though she claims to have won the 2020 disputed presidential election — has been a fast learner.
Throughout, Tsikhanouskaya's message was emphatic and consistent:"The war cannot be over until Belarus is free," as she put it in a conversation with Yahoo News.
During the late Soviet era it was widely derided — at least among the power elite in Moscow and Leningrad — as an underdeveloped backwater of little cultural and political significance. Although the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986 took place on Ukrainian soil, the radioactive cloud quickly blewToday Belarus is the rare ally of Russia in Europe, and a crucial one at that.
"Belarus is either going to fall into a kind of neo-Soviet dictatorship or it will establish a basis for building a modern state,"as those changes were being disputed in Minsk."Right now, it's impossible to tell which."
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