Svetlana

[ svet-lah-nuh, sfet-; Russian svyi-tlah-nuh ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

When President Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed Europe’s last dictator,ordered the arrest of opposition candidate Sergei Tikhanovskaya, Svetlana’s husband, in May 2020, she decided to run as his replacement in the August Presidential elections.

From Time

She now has Svetlana and the friendship they built together.

From Vox

Fifty-five-year-old Svetlana also was worried about the threat of violence but highlighted economic worries as deciding her vote.

From The Daily Beast

Her red-haired friend Svetlana chimed in, “Between two evils we choose Russia.”

From The Daily Beast

His wife, Raisa (and later, First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva), favored the designer and his pieces.

From The Daily Beast

Three years ago I met Svetlana Gorohovik, a young activist, at the prayer meeting outside the Red Church.

From The Daily Beast

“Otherwise, he said, he would take the child away,” Svetlana reports.

From The Daily Beast