Sviatlana Cichanouskaya

Sviatlana Cichanouskaya is a Belarusian politician and opposition leader. She was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. Cichanouskaya has a background in economics and has worked in various roles in the Belarusian government. She became a prominent opposition figure after the 2010 presidential election, which she contested. Cichanouskaya has been a vocal critic of the Belarusian government and has called for democratic reforms. She has been arrested and imprisoned several times for her activism. Cichanouskaya is a graduate of the Belarusian State University and has a master's degree in economics. She is fluent in Belarusian, Russian, and English.