svetlana tikhanovskaya: for sure you are. [laughing] [horns blaring] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ eric: i started covering lukashenko in the mid-1990s. that's how long he's been in power. even back then it was a similar situation. eric: lukashenko may not have the law on his side, but he does control the police and security service. and they appear willing to do whatever it takes to stop his opponents. eric: as the abc correspondent based in moscow, i watched how he kept russia's small neighbor in check by crushing protests and jailing any genuine challengers. he did the same ahead of last year's election, locking up the men who ran the opposition, but this time the women took over. [man speaking foreign language over loudspeaker] eric: svetlana tikhanovskaya became the main opposition candidate after her activist husband was jailed. [crowd cheering] svetlana: my first step was made only for my husband because he was in jail. he couldn't participate himself. but what he was doing for people was very important for him, so i just decided to support

that someone there will give her citizenship of some small state there, yes, but others are not tikhanovskayaren, many with something else, that is , if i were the fugitives, i would advise them to return to belarus with a clear conscience, and live according to the laws of our country, think how reintegrate into belarusian society, and not live in dreams and imagination divorced from reality, their main problem is that in the twentieth year they imagined themselves to be those who they actually weren’t...’ they weren’t, as for this precedent, what will it lead to, a split among the fugitives is already taking place, for reasons of funding for reasons of political ambitions, this is understandable , moreover, let’s also say frankly, fugitives are not the agenda of belarusian politics today, and not only belarusian, and not only belarusian, but they are today. .. on the sidelines, information agenda, political agendas, they are not particularly interesting to anyone, and after a single voting day, especially, this is the fate of such a character, about whom few people today will remember, like

is already visible there, no statement has been accepted at all, well, i went and talked with tikhanovskaya’s all, well, i didn’t notice anything else, another alarming signal for the kiev regime came today from switzerland, they announced a plan for expulsion 70 thousand ukrainian refugees, the swiss are even ready to pay if only the migrants would leave country. but brussels gives the green light to illegal immigrants who stay on the italian coast every day at the expense of the countries of eastern europe. our european correspondent tasya emelyanova talks about how the discussion of the migrant issue in granada turned into an international scandal. summits on migrants have their own unchanging traditions; they always end in failure and a tweet from viktor orban, who vividly, briefly, and quite censoriously explains why. brussels - legally... poland and hungary, imposing a migration pact on them. so there will be no compromise on migration, neither today nor in the coming years, we will protect our borders both from migrants and from brussels. rape is a package of eight points, which was

tikhanovskaya really raises questions, but today we need not remain silent, we need to fight, we stillze international exhibitions, i don’t know , at the belarusian embassy in the european union, try to convey the truth, try to go out, or create our own english-language resources, because the worst thing is when you act without... in this information war, i always remember the story with the butch, this is an incredibly complex information operation brought to an absolute level, russian the federation came out on the losing side in this case, it did not invite the same international cross , there were no peacekeepers, observers, it left the territory, ukrainian soldiers entered, committed a number of crimes, passed it off as a crime to the russian army, everything after that to the russian army. emotional, further, this has already remained somewhere in the subcortex, that is, this fake has become true for a certain group of people, after that we are talking about the fact that there will be an international tribunal for putin to blame, that is, we no longer dispute this first fake, th

events of the twentieth year were the passion of the latvian political establishment, playing tikhanovskayae, but also not only, but the main reason , as it seems to me, is what your minister of foreign affairs noted... this is arrogance and the inability to recognize an equal in your partner in the republic of belarus, where did this arrogance come from in latvians, well probably, my older brother suggested, well, maybe not in all latvians , i hope so, at least when i say the word latvians, i mean exclusively the political establishment, i’m not talking about the common people, you can also remember putin’s quote that there are no bad peoples and states, there are bad regimes and unfriendly governments, so here i am... talking about the latvian political establishment, and of course, having enlisted the support of my older brother, believing that now, if there was a fight in the yard, the older brother would definitely harness it, we began to spoil, what in principle, it was with such difficulty that we created and multiplied in the previous, well, almost three decades . roman, in your opi

revolutionaries, nothing has been done for the people, even if we take the current situation with israel, tikhanovskaya i really liked it, what the yellow plums wrote, for example, but tikhonovskaya really has money, when i say tikhonovskaya, i mean it. not her personally, she is still a person, this is her entourage, they have, they have money to order a plane and take people out, they do it, no, they don’t do it and they won’t do it, in this regard, well, it will be very interesting to actually see what this little office or sharashka’s office will do, how they will be in general, they will have a change of power , they have their own people, what will they do, i believe that it is unlikely, by the way, this was also said, and this is if it concerns the quasi... president, but they also have a quasi parliament . but in your opinion, i wonder if they will try to somehow enter the belarusian agenda during election campaign, just before the single voting day. they will try, and they have ideas, although in fact it is very difficult to imagine how they will implement them, because today, if i dare to ass

revolutionaries, nothing has been done for the people, even if we take the current situation with israel, tikhanovskayaat the yellow plums wrote, for example, but tikhonovskaya really has money, when i say tikhonovskaya , i don’t mean her... but still the face, this is her entourage, they have, they have money to order a plane and take people out, they do it, no, they don’t, and will not do, in connection with this, well, it will actually be very interesting to see what this little office or sharashka’s office will do, how they will be in general, they will have a change of power, they have their own people, what they will do, i think it’s unlikely or, by the way, this was also mentioned, and if it concerns the quasi-president, they also have a quasi -parliament, so in your opinion, i wonder if they will try to somehow enter the belarusian agenda during the election campaign , before the single voting day, they will try and they have thoughts, although in fact it is very difficult to imagine how they will implement them, because today, if i dare to assume, i am even more confident that if earlier they

there a person could give up, the offense is not too serious , or it’s average, yes, but sometimes tikhanovskayathat there’s someone there for her then it will give citizenship of some small state, but others are not tikhonovskaya, with nothing, many with children, many with something else, that is, i would in the place of the fugitives, i would advise them to return to belarus with a clear conscience , and live according to the laws of our country, think about how to reintegrate into belarusian society and not live in dreams, from reality, their main problem is that in the twentieth year they imagined from themselves as those who they actually were not, as for this precedent , what will it lead to, a split among the fugitives is already taking place, for reasons of funding for reasons of political ambitions, this is understandable, moreover, let’s also speak frankly , fugitives are not the agenda of belarusian politics today, and not only belarusian and not only belarusian, but today they are on the sidelines of both the information agenda and the political agenda, they are not particularly int

tikhanovskaya stands for really raises questions, but today we must not remain silent, we must fight,guage resources, because the worst thing is when you are inactive in this information war, i always remember the story of the bully, it’s incredibly complex, brought to absolutely an information operation, the russian federation came out on the losing side in this case, it did not invite the same international cross, there were no peacekeepers-observers, it left . ukrainian soldiers came in, committed a number of crimes, passed it off as a crime to the russian army, the russian army was all, after that this information was thrown in, people accepted it, the information was emotional, then it remained somewhere in the subcortex, that is , this fake became for a certain group of people already true, after we are saying that the international tribunal will blame putin, that is, we are no longer disputing this first fake, this is... the chain that transforms it from a fake into a real one, well, this is the narrative of the liberals, the first thing they start with today discussions, this