This week Latika Takes: The Podcast interviews Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the woman widely regarded as having won Belarus's elections in 2022, who now lives in exile in Lithuania.
Tsikhanouskaya, a mother of two, discusses being an opposition activist, inspiring other exiled movements, a woman political leader in a patriarchal society.
She discusses on the work with the Trump Administration in freeing political prisoners and the contrast between Belarusians and Russians in their perceptions of Western sanctions imposed as a result of the war in Ukraine.
She reflects on the fatigue factor involving the war in Ukraine and how that is affecting populist politics across Europe.
Finally, she addresses the statement released by her husband, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, after he accused her political office of withholding from him their joint Magnitsky Human Rights Award that they won at this month’s awards ceremony in London.
