After 'Europe's last dictator' claims election win in Belarus, days of protests put spotlight on women.
“People are not afraid any more here in this country,” Natalia Denisova, a lawyer and election monitor, told the BBC. “They want an honest election — that is all they want.”
Until taking over for her husband, a jailed blogger, Tikhanovskaya, 37, was a full-time homemaker and mother, but she proved a charismatic figure, and her backers waged an adept social-media campaign.“She was clearly severely underestimated by Lukashenko,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, who was Britain’s ambassador to Belarus in 2008-09.
“I’m confident that the EU and the United States fully share the same concerns about what has taken place, and what is taking place, in Belarus,” he said Thursday in Slovenia. Pompeo drew criticism for failing to mention Belarus in a speech delivered a day earlier to Czech lawmakers on freedom in “the heart of Europe.”
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