Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya – who most international observers believe won the country’s 2020 presidential election – met with President George W. Bush in Dallas on May 5 to discuss her fight for democracy in Belarus and her husband’s struggle for freedom as a political prisoner under the Aleksandr Lukashenka regime.
She sat down with the Dallas Morning News‘ Ryan Sanders to discuss why freedom in Belarus should matter to Americans. “Dictatorship somewhere is a threat to democracy everywhere,” Tsikhanouskaya said. “So it’s in the interest of the USA and other democratic countries to be with those who are protecting democratic values.”