Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: “Belarusians do not want blood and war. They want free elections”

By Rusłan Szoszyn

Editor's Note: Belarus is a country in the midst of a grassroots uprising against its longtime dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an interview selected and translated by our partner Forum.eu, the opposition candidate for the 9 August presidential vote, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, says people are seeking to reclaim their dignity, and were outraged when the regime lied about the coronavirus threat.