But I understand I have no right to give up, because people… - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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But I understand I have no right to give up, because people who are in jail didn't give up. They now are suffering for us. Only these people, the families of those repressed in Belarus, have given me the energy to go on.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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About Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya or Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya (Belarusian: Святлана Георгіеўна Ціханоўская / Śviatłana Hieorhijeŭna Cichanoŭskaja) (Russian: Светлана Георгиевна Тихановская) (born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky was arrested.

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Native Name: Святлана Георгіеўна Ціханоўская

Alternative Names: Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya

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