October Lecture Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the democratic Belarusian opposition against dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will deliver the ninth October Lecture in the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. The lecture is an initiative of RAAM – platform for knowledge, analysis and debate on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The lecture takes place on Friday evening, October 17.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has lived in exile in the EU since 2020, when she was forced to flee Belarus with her two children. All evidence indicates that Tsikhanouskaya won the presidential elections in Belarus in August of that year, defeating Aliaksandr Lukashenka, often referred to as ‘Europe’s last dictator’, who has held the country in his iron grip for more than thirty years. The election results were falsified, and Tsikhanouskaya was forced to leave the country. Together with her team, she has since operated from neighbouring Lithuania as the National Leader of Belarus, a government-in-exile.