Svetlana

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

noun

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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.
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She now has Svetlana and the friendship they built together.
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Fifty-five-year-old Svetlana also was worried about the threat of violence but highlighted economic worries as deciding her vote.
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Her red-haired friend Svetlana chimed in, “Between two evils we choose Russia.”
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His wife, Raisa (and later, First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva), favored the designer and his pieces.
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Three years ago I met Svetlana Gorohovik, a young activist, at the prayer meeting outside the Red Church.
Forget Kim Jong Un—China’s New Favorite Dictator Is Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko. | Kapil Komireddi | January 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
“Otherwise, he said, he would take the child away,” Svetlana reports.
Threats Preceded High-Rise Suicide, New York Mom Says | Michael Daly | December 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

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