Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa: "We underestimated Lukashenko's ferocity"

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A year after her first meeting with Emmanuel Macron, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya visited Paris for the first time on Friday, September 17.

Received by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, she asks France to take decisive measures and organize a discussion between Moscow, Paris and the Lukashenko regime.

In an interview with Denis Strelkov (RFI) and Gauthier Rybinski (France 24), Tikhanovskaïa says that France has promised to be alongside the Belarusian people and to put pressure on the regime. 

• Russia

• Belarus

• France

• Alexander Lukashenko