Svetlana Tsikanovskaya
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Svetlana Tsikanovskaya is the leader of the Belarusian opposition, advocating for democracy and human rights in Belarus. This interview reveals her determination to inspire unity among Belarusians and her commitment to challenging the authoritarian regime of Lukashenko.
“And we keep circling around it. And the Maya Sandhu thing we've just done, and yesterday I was with Albin Corti, the Prime Minister of Kosovo. What we're seeing is countries, which I suppose, some of which are actually pretty small countries with population of one and a half million. Belarus is bigger. Nine and a half ”
“Look, we get a lot of people saying we don't have enough women on the podcast. And the reason for that is in politics, it is still largely men who make it to the top. And I think what we saw recently with Maya Sandu, what we've now just seen with her, is you say a woman who've got real courage, real guts. But Bill Brow”
“Yeah, it was interesting with Bill Browder how he was, I thought, given he still has to try to appeal to the Americans for the work that he's doing and the campaigns that he's running, that he didn't really, he was pretty heavy on Trump, I thought. Whereas I thought with her, she was clearly quite cautious about that. ”
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