Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya began her visit to Belgium and met with the Prime Minister
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya arrived in Brussels, where she held meetings at the European Parliament and the European Commission. The main goal and subject of these meetings are to stop violence in Minsk and Belarusian cities. In the afternoon, Ms. Tsikhanouskaya had a meeting with the Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová. […]
December 15, 2020
Economic pressure and assistance program. Highlights
On December 15, the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a press conference on the program of economic pressure on the regime and support of the people of Belarus. The speakers were Ales Aliakhnovich, Tsikhanouskaya's economic representative, political advisor Alexander Dabravolski, Pavel Latushka, member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council, and the head of NAM, […]
December 15, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Steinmeier expressed admiration for the feat of the Belarusian people. They discussed the importance of national identity in the fight for freedom. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya stressed that the language, history, interest in culture and the white-red-white flag are what strengthen the protest. Tsikhanouskaya said that Lukashenko will leave one way or another, but this must happen […]
December 14, 2020
Highlights of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s visit to Bundestag
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag Norbert Röttgen and Vice-President of the German Bundestag Claudia Roth. The main subject of the meetings was assistance to Belarusians. It includes supporting the repressed, the wounded, those trying to get the necessary treatment, […]
December 14, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya started her visit to Germany
She met with Svetlana Alexievich in Berlin. They discussed how to help people in Belarus. Alexievich said that she was collecting stories for a possible book, the story of the heroes of this revolution. Tsikhanouskaya emphasized that at every meeting with foreign politicians, she tells the stories of Belarusians and each of them she experiences […]
December 13, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will travel to Berlin and Brussels on December 13-16
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will travel to Berlin and Brussels on December 13-16 to work on achieving the most pressing policy agenda item: to stop violence and lawlessness against Belarusians. This will be the first step to a political dialogue leading to the resolution of the political crisis in Belarus and new presidential elections. In Berlin, Mrs. Tsikhanouskaya […]
December 12, 2020
Key Positions and Insights in Foreign Policy
Cooperation with Russia What is Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s view on the cooperation with Russia? Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya remains committed to the multifaceted foreign policy. Russia is and has always been Belarus’s close neighbor and working with it is a natural foreign policy priority. The only thing we ask from Moscow is to withdraw support from Lukashenka. The […]
December 11, 2020
Private Sector Support – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office plan
Belarusian business took the plunge and supported the protest and strike of Belarusians. For this, the regime began a wave of repressions against entrepreneurs. For far-fetched reasons, several hundred catering, trade, and service establishments have been closed throughout the country. The investments of entrepreneurs, the well-being of employees, thousands of whom have already lost their […]
December 11, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Foreign Policy Priorities
Belarusians have been living under state terror for months. The price they are paying for their peaceful fight is too high. We are asking you to act faster and assertively. Western countries should demand new and fair elections and the release of all political prisoners. Our priorities and recommendations: Solidarity Help host those who were […]
December 10, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appoints Valery Kavaleuski as her representative on international affairs
Valery Kavaleuski is a diplomat. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University, the IPM Business School, holds a master's degree from Georgetown University (USA). At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, he dealt with relations between Belarus and the United States, worked at the embassy in Washington. Before […]
December 10, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Ambassador of Israel
Today the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Lithuania Yossef Levy visited the Office of Sviatlana Tskihanouskaya in Vilnius. He explained that the presentation of credentials to Lukashenka by the new Israeli Ambassador to Minsk does not mean support for the actions of Lukashenka's regime. This was done so that Israel could help representatives […]
December 10, 2020
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General has launched a pre-trial investigation under universal jurisdiction into crimes against humanity under a complaint by a Belarusian citizen
The Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania officially announced that it launched a criminal probe and began a pre-trial investigation into the violence against the Belarusian Maksim Kharoshyn. Maksim was tortured in Minsk. He ended up in a hospital and then fled to Lithuania. On November 30, on behalf of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's office, Lawyer Giedrius Danėlius […]
December 09, 2020
Ten principles of new elections. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office concept
According to Belarusian laws, snap election can be held in the event of the voluntary resignation of the president, the removal or dismissal of the president from office by parliament. The election must be held at least 30 days, and maximum – 70 days after the vacancy occurs. In the current situation, election preparation can […]
December 07, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has sent a letter to Pope Francis
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed an open letter to Pope Francis: “Fraternal Society: A Vision For a New Belarus”. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has sent an open letter to the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, in response to his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers), published on October 3. The encyclical, directed not only to Catholics but […]
December 04, 2020
Transition period: Adviser to Tsikhanouskaya on what awaits Belarus
Today, December 3, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared her readiness to lead Belarus in the transition period. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's adviser Alexander Dabravolski presented possible scenarios for the development of the situation in Belarus and Tsikhanouskaya's role in them. Belarus is in an acute political crisis. The country's former president, Aliaksandr Lukashenka, lost the elections but decided to […]
December 03, 2020
Call with doctors: COVID-19 and repressions in Belarus
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a online call with Belarusian doctors. She expressed her admiration for doctors' solidarity, especially after 5,000 doctors signed an open letter demanding Lukashenka's resignation and new elections. During the conference, the following issues were discussed: Detentions and arrests Doctors continue to be subjected to administrative detentions. The conditions of detention are very […]
December 02, 2020
“The governing bodies only pretend to govern”. Call with teachers from regions
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a video conference with representatives of schools from Belarusian regions. Olga Shparaga, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's representative for education, took part in the meeting as well. Olga said that the Office for Education is discussing creating an online learning platform with various stakeholders. She also shared the plans to launch a series of discussions of […]
December 02, 2020
Meeting of the Cabinet of Representatives: Criminal Investigations, Student Assistance, and Privatization Example
Human rights Hary Pahanyaila, Tsikhanouskaya's representative for human rights, said that after applying to investigate the case of Maksim Kharoshyn under the universal criminal jurisdiction in Vilnius, similar applications on other cases are being prepared in Poland. Besides, Pahanyaila announced his intention to resume work on the cases of the disappearance of Lukashenka's political opponents […]
December 01, 2020
Launch of the Unified Crime Registration Book initiative
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya launched a new initiative: the Unified Crime Registration Book. Security officials' voluntary surrender will mitigate punishment. “Today the second stage of the People's Tribunal is starting. We are launching a new project, the Unified Crime Registration Book, created by the National Anti-Crisis Management and ByPol, the foundation of former law enforcement officers. Impunity […]
December 01, 2020
Tsikhanouskaya’s representative for education Olga Shparaga on supporting scientists and teachers
Olga Shparaga: “Repressions against the academic and scientific community continue in Belarus. Since November 17, the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has not renewed seven employees' contracts. All of them protested against the lawlessness, served their sentence, or supported arrested colleagues. Today, five more scientists announced their resignation in […]
November 27, 2020
Tsikhanouskaya’s office filed the first application to investigate the police brutality under universal jurisdiction
This is an application to commence proceeding following the commission of the acts of violence against Maksim Kharoshyn, an entrepreneur, detained near his house in Minsk, beaten, taken to a police department and beaten even there until an ambulance was called for him. So he ended up in a hospital and then fled to Lithuania. The […]
November 27, 2020
Meeting with the Cabinet of Representatives: sanctions, aid programmes and the Constitution
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a meeting with the Cabinet of Representatives. The representative for education Olga Shparaga spoke about the work on helping the repressed students and teachers, as well as exploring new possibilities for further education for the expelled ones. In particular, she talked about the launch of a new aid programme for Belarusian students […]
November 26, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya thanked the President of Lithuania for support of the Belarusian people
Today during a video call with the president of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya thanked Lithuania for support of the Belarusian people and the firm position regarding Lukashenka’s regime. They discussed recent events in Belarus and the murder of Raman Bandarenka, as well as support to the repressed Belarusians and simplification of migration regulations for them. The […]
November 24, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya about the new victory of peaceful protest
“Belarusians have won today. Free Kaskad neighborhood released white-red-white balloons with the national flag into the sky before going out to the streets. Residents of Kurasoushchyna proudly walked with national symbols around the district and had successfully dispersed in nearby courtyards just a minute before paddy wagons arrived. In Kamennaya Horka and around Dziarzhynski Avenue, people came back […]
November 22, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya supported everyone who will take part in Sunday’s march
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya supported everyone who will take part in Sunday's march: “Dear Belarusians! Every Sunday the regime does everything to prevent the courageous Belarusians from gathering in their city. The central squares are overlapping, the movement of public transport is changing, or even canceled. But this Sunday, the march starts right by your house. People will […]
November 21, 2020
Belarus will sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Hague for the trial of regime’s accomplices
During the meetings with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya announced that crimes against humanity, that regime’s accomplices commit, will not go unpunished. Evidence of the crimes will be prepared for examination of the International Criminal Court and Tribunal in Hague. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya announced that in the […]
November 21, 2020
About threats to take away children
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya – about threats to take away children: “First they started to kidnap people on the streets. Then they began to break into the apartments. Now they are invading families directly and threatening to announce that the children of the protesters are in a socially dangerous situation. The soloist of the choir “Uniya” Aliaksandr […]
November 20, 2020
Initiation of the process of declaring the Main Directorate for combating organized crime (GUBOPiK) and OMON terrorist organizations
During the working visit to the Netherlands, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stef Blok. They discussed international investigations on the regime's crimes in Belarus and the initiation of the process of declaring the Main Directorate for combating organized crime and OMON terrorist organizations. Blok expressed his willingness to assist in this […]
November 20, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: politruks are accomplices of the regime
“Day by day, we read news that gives us the creeps: water in the whole district was cut-off, dismissals for political stands, detentions for managing a Telegram channel. And all of these actions were taken by a particular individual, who signed an order. And their employees' records do not necessarily say politruk or “ideologist”, but […]
November 20, 2020