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August 8, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Change in Belarus is inevitable, and Belarusians can work to create the necessary window of opportunity and be ready to use it, Belarusian pro-democracy leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja said in her opening speech at the New Belarus Conference in Warsaw on August 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No matter how much [Alaksandar] Luka\u0161enka is photoshopped on [the website of state news agency] BelTA, his time is inexorably running out,\u201d Cichano\u016dskaja said. \u201cWhether it’s due to natural causes, a split in the system, or something none of us can foresee today, no one knows. But we need to think right now about what post-Lukashenka Belarus will look like: how to prevent chaos, how to restore the rule of law and a sense of security, how to hold free elections, and how to pull Belarus out Russia\u2019s grip and return it into the European family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recalling the mass protests that erupted after the presidential election on August 9, 2020, Cichano\u016dskaja said that \u201cdid not win then, but we did not lose, as 2020 launched irreversible processes.\u201d She played up the resilience of Belarus as the regime \u201cobsessively tries to erase the memory of 2020.\u201d She stressed that Belarusians possess a “partisan spirit\u201d that will allow them to act decisively when a new opportunity arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great deal has changed over the past year, with many political prisoners released, Ukraine rethinking its approach toward Belarusian pro-democracy forces and Luka\u0161enka facing a realistic prospect of a tribunal in The Hague, Cichano\u016dskaja said. She credited \u201chuman rights defenders, journalists, politicians, activists, volunteers, and naturally our foreign friends\u201d with these achievements and called on people in Belarus not to \u201close faith\u201d and to \u201chelp each other.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 8, Pozirk. Change in Belarus is inevitable, and Belarusians can work to create the necessary window of opportunity and be ready to use it, Belarusian pro-democracy leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja said in her opening speech at the New Belarus Conference in Warsaw on August 8. “No matter how much [Alaksandar] Luka\u0161enka is photoshopped on [the website of state news agency] BelTA, his time is inexorably running out,\u201d Cichano\u016dskaja said. \u201cWhether it’s due to natural causes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":199193,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-199253","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nClock ticking on\u00a0Luka\u0161enka, Belarusians should be ready,\u00a0Cichano\u016dskaja\u00a0says | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 8, Pozirk. Change in Belarus is inevitable, and Belarusians can work to create 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