Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of democratic Belarus.
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is a former presidential candidate and leader of a national democratic movement in Belarus. By popular consensus, she received the most votes in the presidential election of Belarus on August 9, 2020. However, the official results were falsified in favor of the incumbent, and she was forced out of her country. She leads the democratic movement out of the neighbouring Lithuania. She fights for human rights, democracy and freedom everywhere.
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