Belarusian opposition reported the Lukashenko and Sunday election

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to play in Belarus for the election to what is happening this weekend.

“It’s a pretense,” says exile opposition leaders. “This is a military style operation; a screening of the regime to maintain power”.

For three decades, the country has been becoming more and more authoritarian Alexander Lukashen, now firmly protected by Vladimir Putin, which uses his neighbor in the absolute invasion of Ukraine.

This Sunday, Belarus will see Lukashenko’s name again on voting paper, with no more than four other names to avoid challenging.

An independent observer is not allowed.

Strict controls have been established, because the Belarus voted by a president because the country was taken by giant protests.

In 2020, Alexander Lukashenko allowed Svetlana to Tikhanovskaya, thinking that a political beginner – and a woman did not have.

It was an incredible wrong calculation.

Tikhanovskaya decided to put Lukashenko after his husband after Lukashenko Join his husband.

When Lukashenko scored 80% of the vote, the crowd came out with the greatest threat ever to the rule of Lukaaxenko. After all, the police police crushed protests with massive arrests and gross strength.

Then the European Union refused to recognize legitimacy as president Lukaxenkori.

Today, all the main people of the opposition of the time are in jail or escaped abroad, like Tikhanovskaya. The former protesters still in Belarus frightened them in silence.

So the opposition head does not require them to take it back on Sunday.

“We call Belarusians to discard this fraud and deny the result to the international community,” BBC said. “But I say to Belarusians, you have to be safe until the real moment.

“Because people live in constant fear, and the regime is now increasing repression.”

You feel that fear immediately when you talk to Belarusians.

Many do not want to talk about politics publicly. Others ask you to change names, then choose their words carefully.

Some chat only through encrypted messages that are still eliminating in Belarus.

Everyone says that the open political political activism of the country is shut down.

BYOL, the non-profit organization that helps evacuate the endangered, has announced that the request of 30 or 40 applications increased by the request of the environment.

From 2020, the Group has evacuated more than 1,500 people.

It also supports former political prisoners who try to rebuild life in exile.

Yana Zhuravleva has been tough for the veterinarian.

Before 2020 he was dedicated to his work and was not particularly politically active. But in the summer he joined the giant crowd, hoping for change.

He then imposed a three-year sentence, attributed to the “severe violation of public order.

“They will punish us for everything,” he remembered the time in prison.

It calculates that there were about 10 out of 10 women for protests. Like them, Yana was added to the registration of “extreme and destructive activity”.

“You can’t go to the sports station, your only letters are family and get less visit rights. If you complain, you always hear the same answer: I remember what you are here, where to Poland, where. Moved after the last release.

Yana supports the “titanic” force that he needed to slide the depression depth.

“In prison, I almost didn’t cry. But when I was out, I wanted to sob suddenly all the time, and I didn’t know why”.

The various people I have contacted have mentioned that they require psychological support, after threatening, threatened or imprisonment.

They describe a security service that hunts anyone with the lowest link with the opposition, which requires the name to everyone who arrests.

The pressure never got off.

A woman in Belarus, who controlled human rights, told me that he had to stop going to court because the authorities saw.

If they were to prove a link to the banned human rights organization, they may be accused of “extreme”.

“I can do some specific help actions, but I have to be careful,” he told me anonymously.

“You have a very high feeling of disability when you see all this injustice.”

Today Viasna lists 1,256 political prisoners in Belarus. They gave tennestics recently, but they were soon replaced.

For those who escape from the Belarus pressure pot, there is an additional struggle for knowing that they will not be returned for a long time.

Therefore, Natalia, not his real name, decided to stay in Belarus, even though they were arrested twice for participation in protests.

“You’re very vulnerable once you’re on the ‘repressed’ list,” he explained.

“You can’t get a job because you’re in the police database and the authorities always looked at …”.

For Natalia, this brought to the arrest again, early for walking his dog without lead.

“They said I was aggressive and fucking loudly and said that my arms shook me,” he remembers his arrest in 2023. They had 14 people for up to two people in a Zelda for up to two people, the light is constantly on.

For more than a week, he slept on the wood floor.

“He really shook my sensation of security, I became much more nervous,” he admits Natalia.

It’s abroad right now and he plans to return soon to his cats. But his neighbors say that a police have just visited his house, controlling all the potential manifesters before Sunday.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya believes that constant repulsion shows Lukaxenko and its allies are afraid.

“The trauma of 2020 is still alive and must be removed every opportunity of uprising,” has argued the opposition heads.

“He knows that the Belarus did not accept or forgive, and still want change.”

But in the short term it accepts there is little indication of this.

After the absolute invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the residents of Belarus hoped to defeat Putin with Western support, and Lukashenko would continue.

Some of them began to first line, choosing strength after their peaceful protests failed.

But the Ukrainian army is fighting now and the president Donald Trump is pushing peace conversations.

“The democratic world cannot commit Putini,” says Tikhanovskay, and describes it as dangerous as the world of Lukashenko.

Russia left the missile to Kick Ukrainian from Belarus and sent his tanks throughout his territory.

He also allowed to come to the Polish border and EU.

“Putini is a nuclear weapon and his army to spread in Belarus, and is a very short path for Poland and Lithuania,” Tikhanovskaikai emphasized.

“They are the same pair of him and Putin, and they support other dictators. It is part of this chain of evil.”

There is little doubt on Sunday to reset Alexander Lukaxenko to go according to his plan.

“That person is very capable,” Yana explained, former political prisoners.

“They really stepped on the protest option.”

Now he is trying to return to the veterinarian profession, but in Poland, and three prisoners recover from hard.

Those I spoke now they see Lukashenko retirement, or eventually die, is the greatest hope of seeing democracy.

Meanwhile, many attention is changing: Interest in reviving in Belarusian culture and language, the cause of opposition. It is what a lot dare in such situations.

“No one clearly says, but it seems to us that there is no hope. There is depression,” he admits Natalia.

But there is no obvious remorse, however.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s life has changed dramatically since they entered politics.

Trimmed from his country, his husband is also a political prisoner: it has been completely isolated for almost two years.

The opposition head stressed that he still “really believes” in change.

“2020a was a great change in Mentality in Belarus. I don’t know how long it will take, but that change will not disappear.”