Belarusian women are driving the movement to topple “Europe’s last dictator”.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and her colleagues, Veronika Tsepkalo and Maria Kolesnikova, led a strategic opposition election campaign, holding large rallies across the country.
But despite the August 9 election results, thousands of people, many of them women, gather every weekend to protest against President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s oppressive regime.