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Tsikhanouskaya
Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya (; born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian political activist. After standing as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election against the president Alexander Lukashenko, she has led the political opposition to his authoritarian rule through an oppositional government operating from Lithuania and Poland. Tsikhanouskaya became an opposition leader after her husband, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, ran as a presidential candidate in the 2020 presidential election. He was arrested, along with most other opposition leaders, and, as she was unable to file for the presidency on his behalf, Tsikhanouskaya entered herself into the race as a candidate. Lukashenko allowed her candidacy because he believed that a woman could not form legitimate opposition. She ran on a platform of constitutional reform, seeking free and fair elections with term limits on the presidency, and she pledged to step down once this was implemented. After Lukashenko was declared the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coordination Council (Belarus)
The Coordination Council, originally known as the Coordination Council for ensuring the transfer of power (; ) is a non-governmental body created by presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to facilitate a democratic transfer of power in Belarus. The council, founded during the 2020 Belarusian protests in response to the disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election, originally had 64 core members () with a 7-member leadership presidium. The first meeting of the Council took place on 18 August 2020. From late August to mid-October several of the presidium members were arrested or chose to exile themselves from Belarus, fearing repression by Belarusian security forces. In 2022-2023, the Coordination Council was transformed into a more representative body for the Belarusian people, consisting of members from various democratic groups in exile. This marked a significant step in formalizing the opposition's leadership structure. In May 2024, the Coordination Council h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Belarusian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was announced by the Central Election Commission of Belarus, Central Election Commission (CEC) to have won a sixth term in office, crediting him with just over 80% of the vote. Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being labelled by international monitors as neither free nor fair. Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya claimed to have won a decisive first-round victory with at least 60% of the vote, and called on Lukashenko to start negotiations. Her campaign subsequently formed the Coordination Council (Belarus), Coordination Council to facilitate a transfer of power and stated that it was ready to organize "long-term protests" against the official results. All seven members of the Coordination Council Presidium were subsequently arrested or went into Government in exile, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Transitional Cabinet
The United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus () is a government in exile for Belarus that was formed in August 2022. Creation Following the disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election, opposition forces, led by presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya formed a Coordination Council to facilitate a transition to democracy in the country. Tsikhanouskaya and several other members of the council were forced to leave Belarus or were placed under arrest during protests that broke out following the election. The United Transitional Cabinet was formed on 9 August 2022 during a two-day conference in Vilnius after members of the Belarusian opposition requested Tsikhanouskaya to form "a united interim government". Aims and guidelines The stated aims of the United Transitional Cabinet are as follows: *"Defend the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus, represent the national interests of Belarus." *"Carry out the de facto de-occupation of Belarus." *"Restore cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syarhei Tsikhanouski
Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky (born 18 August 1978) is a Belarusian YouTuber, video blogger, opposition leader and pro-democracy activist. He is primarily known for his activism against the government of Belarus's long-serving president, Alexander Lukashenko. In May 2020, he announced his intention of running for the 2020 presidential election, but he was arrested two days after the announcement, and his wife Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya then ran in place of him as the main rival to Lukashenko in the contested election. On 21 June 2025, Tsikhanouski was released from prison after US representative Keith Kellogg's visit to Belarus, after five years of solitary confinement. Early life and education Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky was born in Horki, Mogilev Region, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Tikhanovsky
Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky (born 18 August 1978) is a Belarusian YouTuber, Vlog, video blogger, Belarusian opposition, opposition leader and Democracy promotion, pro-democracy activist. He is primarily known for his activism against the government of Belarus's long-serving president, Alexander Lukashenko. In May 2020, he announced his intention of running for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, 2020 presidential election, but he was arrested two days after the announcement, and his wife Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya then ran in place of him as the main rival to Lukashenko in the contested election. On 21 June 2025, Tsikhanouski was released from prison after US representative Keith Kellogg's visit to Belarus, after five years of solitary confinement. Early life and education Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky was born in Horki, Mogilev Region, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kalesnikava
Maria Kalesnikava (Marya Alyaksandrauna Kalesnikava / Maria Aleksandrovna Kolesnikova; born 24 April 1982) is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus. Kalesnikava represented the united campaign of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, then she became a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020 Belarusian protests in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. She is also a founder of the ' Razam' political party. Kalesnikava was kidnapped by unidentified law enforcement officers on 7 September 2020. Early in the morning of 8 September 2020, she was taken to the Ukraine country border by force. Kalesnikava was intimidated and pressured to leave the country, but while on neutral ground she got out of the car through the rear window, tore her passport to pieces and went back on foot. On Belarusian territory she was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office, current longest-serving European leader. Before embarking on his political career, Lukashenko worked as the director of a state farm (''sovkhoz'') and served in both the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. In 1990, Lukashenko was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he assumed the position of head of the interim anti-corruption committee of the Supreme Council of Belarus. In 1994, he won the presidency in the country's 1994 Belarusian presidential election, inaugural presidential election after the adoption of a new Constitution of Belarus, constitution. Lukashenko opposed Shock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktar Babaryka
Viktar Dzmitryevich Babaryka ( or Viktor Dmitryevich Babariko; born 9 November 1963) is a Belarusian banker, philanthropist, public and opposition political figure who intended to become a candidate in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. Although official polls were heavily censored by the government of incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko, who was running for re-election, independent polls established Babaryka as the early favorite for the 2020 president election. In June of that year, Babryka was detained by the Belarusian government over charges of "illegal inancialactivities", leading his candidacy to be rejected the next month and to a 14 years-prison sentence for bribery and tax evasion in January 2021; the charges are considered to be politically motivated, and he is perceived as a political prisoner. Many collaborators of Babaryka were also detained or sentenced around the same time, including his son Eduard who serves a 8-year prison sentence since July 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikashevichy
Mikashevichy or Mikashevichi is a town in Brest Region, in southern Belarus. It is located halfway between the cities of Brest and Gomel. As of 2025, it has a population of 12,027. History At the conclusion of World War I, Mikaszewicze held a special place in the political dialogue accompanying the Polish–Soviet War. The talks started in October 1919 at the small Mikaszewicze railway station and continued until December 1919. During the talks, Marshal Józef Piłsudski informed the Bolshevik delegation that Poland was not supporting the White movement of Anton Denikin in the Russian Civil War. The exchange of prisoners was decided there. However, the talks soon broke down. Already informed about Poland's intentions regarding the Lithuanian–Belorussian front, Bolshevik leaders began a progressive concentration of the forces on the interim border with Poland. In the interwar period, it was located in the Polesie Voivodeship of Poland. The town had a Jewish population of ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Tsepkalo
Valery Vilyamovich Tsepkalo or Valery Vilyamavich Tsapkala (; ; born 22 February 1965) is a Belarusian politician and entrepreneur. After graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a doctoral degree in international law and serving in the embassy of the Soviet Union in Finland, Tsepkalo joined the staff of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He later became an advisor on foreign political and economic relations to the Chairman of the Belarusian Parliament, Stanislav Shushkevich, and then a senior advisor to the Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States. He led Alexander Lukashenko's presidential campaign in the 1994 election and later took the post of First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1997 to 2002, Tsepkalo was the Belarusian Ambassador to the United States and Mexico. In 2005–2006 he was Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy in the Parliament. In 2005 he established the Belarus High Technologies Park (HT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Tsepkalo
Veronika Valeryevna Tsepkalo or Veranika Valereuna Tsapkala (; ; born 7 September 1976) is a Belarusian political activist. Early life Tsepkalo's mother is Evgenia Shesterikova, sister is Natalya Leonyuk. Her grandfather Peter Shesterikov, was a writer, who has a street name in Mogilev named in his memory. In 1998, Tsepkalo graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarus State University with a degree in International Relations. In 2004–2006 she studied at the Higher School of Management and Business of the Belarusian State Economic University. In 2008, she studied at the National Institute of Small and Medium Enterprises in Hyderabad, India. Tsepkalo works as a business development manager for Microsoft. 2020 election activism When Tsepkalo's husband Valery Tsepkalo (a former Belarusian ambassador to the United States) announced his participation in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, Tsepkalo accompanied him on his trips. On 14 July 2020, Vale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łacinka
The Belarusian Latin alphabet or Łacinka (from , BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, BGN/PCGN: , ) for the Latin script in general is the Latin script as used to write Belarusian. It is similar to the Sorbian alphabet and incorporates features of the Polish alphabet, Polish and Czech alphabet, Czech alphabets. Today, Belarusian most commonly uses the Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabet. Use Łacinka was used in the Belarusian area from the 16th century. After the Third Partition of Poland, annexation of the Belarusian territory by the Russian Empire, Łacinka was completely banned by the Russian authorities during 1859-1905 in order to facilitate the switch to the Belarusian alphabet, Cyrillic script and preferably to the Russian language. This ban October Manifesto, ended in 1905, resulting in the active concurrent use of both Łacinka and the Belarusian Cyrillic script in numerous books and newspapers until the 1930s. Though during the time of the German occupation of Byel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
