Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

person

Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activist (born 1982)

Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian opposition leader and political activist. Since running in the 2020 presidential election against President Alexander Lukashenko, she has led dissidence to his authoritarian rule through an alternate government operating from Lithuania and Poland.