A large photo of her husband adorns the folder in which she keeps her notes. He, Siarhey Tsikhanouski, Belarusian blogger and opponent, arrested after announcing that he would stand in the presidential elections and later sentenced to 18 years in prison; she, Svitlana Tsikhanouúskaya, current leader of his country’s democratic opposition in exileaccidental successor of her husband in the electoral contest, and moral winner of an election in which accusations of fraud once again persecuted the dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko.
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