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Date and place of birth: born on September 11, Mikashevichi, Luninets district, Brest region, Belarus. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Mozyr State Pedagogical University with a degree in “Foreign Languages English, German”. Career: After graduation, she lived in the city of Gomel. She worked as a translator from English in different organizations, including in the charitable organization of assistance to the Chernobyl Life Line to the Chernobyl accident.
Political activity: on May 15, after the refusal of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus, to register the initiative group to collect signatures in support of the nomination of her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky to the presidential candidates, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya submitted documents to the CEC to register the initiative group to nominate her as a candidate. During the presidential election in Belarus, even minimal standards for democratic elections were not observed in Belarus.
A large number of Belarusian citizens considers the official results of the vote on August 9, announced by the CEC, falsified. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya announced the creation of a representative body of the Belarusian Society of the Coordination Council, created to organize the process of getting out of the political crisis, protecting the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Belarus.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya decided to create a combined transitional cabinet - a collective executive body that will provide transit from the dictatorship to democracy. She met with the presidents and heads of governments of Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, the USA and other states, thereby attracting the attention of international politics to Belarus and the struggle of the Belarusian people for democracy.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was awarded many international awards, including the American John McCain Freedom Prize and the Sakharov Awards awarded to the European Parliament. Family: The husband of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - Sergey - was detained shortly after the beginning of her election campaign.
In the year, the Belarusian court sentenced him to 18 years in prison on charges of organizing unrest, inciting enmity and obstruction of the CEC. The international human rights organization Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience. Has a son genus. Latest news.