tens of thousands of people have come to the capital means skin recent days to cheat on svetlana scania. she's standing incumbent president alexander lukashenko and has become the face of the opposition here. i don't want to be silent anymore i don't want to be afraid are you also tired of staying silent. but. doesn't want to be president in case she wins she has promised to release political prisoners and then call new elections she's campaigning out of solidarity with her husband is a popular blogger. who wanted to run for the presidency himself but was not authorized. he had traveled across the country revealing abuses of power corruption and poverty and was charged with inciting popular unrest has been in jail since many. critics of the regime see him as a political prisoner who is apparently a threat for president. of the dispute is ill this is completely arbitrary in our country we just eliminate the competition but i look back and such as it is are you that it's unfair it should be allowed he was jailed over nothing here now they're making him into an enemy of the people it's a d