“He is clearly not going to dispute the leadership of his wife, he calls himself the first gentleman. The president usually accompanies the first lady, and we have the first gentleman. He really likes to call himself that,” Tikhanovskaya said.
According to her, her husband is “strange to see” that she has her own business.
“I flew away today-after a week I flew in. Once until 2020, he is a working person, and now he needs to let me go, no one asks him.“ We have to go? ”-“ Do you have to come home late? ”-“ Necessary ”. […] I do not feel any struggle for leadership. We are very complemented by each other, and we even emotionally even – two different people. I am more a diplomatic person, he is more emotional, ”the oppositionist explained.
According to her, earlier the opposition did not have enough energy of Tikhanovsky.
Tikhanovskaya believes that her husband still “needs to understand what happened these five years.”
“He will find his niche. He is very good in communication, in blogging, in the media. I think that he will become the driver of our movement,” she said.
Context
Tikhanovsky – Belarusian blogger, author of YouTube channel “A country for life“. In May 2020, Tikhanovsky announced his intention to participate in the presidential election in Belarus, in the same month he was taken into custody.
The CEC refused to register Tikhanovsky as a presidential candidate, after which his wife Svetlana announced his intention to run for president. Tikhanovskaya was registered as a candidate, around her candidates the headquarters of other opposition candidates united, who were not allowed to the elections.
The presidential election in Belarus took place on August 9. According to official figures, won on them Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, who was under the authorities, allegedly voted 80.1% of voters for him. The second place with 10.1% of the vote was taken by Tikhanovskaya. At the same time, alternative ecsitla They showed the confident victory of Tikhanovskaya.
December 14, 2021 The court sentenced Tikhanovsky To 18 years in a colony of reinforced regime.
On June 19, 2025, 14 political prisoners, including Tikhanovsky, were released in Belarus. This is associated on a visit to Minsk by the special representative of US President Kita Kellogue.
