‘Dictators cannot be appeased or reeducated. They can only be fought’

"Belarus is a crucial element for Putin but also his weakest link," argues the exiled politician and leader of the Belarusian opposition Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in a Kathimerini interview. On the sidelines of her participation in the 9th Delphi Economic Forum, the opponent of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko outlines to Kathimerini the uncontrolled and authoritarian situation in Belarus. 

With her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky imprisoned, she took on Lukashenko in the 2020 presidential election, with the latter receiving 81.04% and forming a new government and Tsikhanouskaya claiming to have won with at least 60% of the vote. The validity of the elections was questioned by international observers.

Based on your statement that the fates of Ukraine and Belarus are intertwined, how do you assess the development of the war?

I think that this...