Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tihanovskaya informed Lithuanian parliamentarians this week about her decision to move to Warsaw.
She informed politicians about this at a meeting with the temporary group of the Seimas "For Democratic Belarus." This information was confirmed to the BNS agency on Saturday by two Lithuanian parliamentarians from different factions who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The decision of Tihanovskaya was also reported on Saturday by the AFP news agency, citing four members of the Belarusian opposition leader's team who spoke on condition of anonymity, as well as a source in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The BNS agency reported that at the end of 2025, Lithuania changed and reduced the security for the opposition leader - now, instead of the State Protection Service, the police are in charge of this. This was done with the argument that the threats to Tihanovskaya had decreased, however, critics claimed that this diminished her status.
Tihanovskaya ran against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 elections; the opposition claims that she was the true winner of the vote.
Tihanovskaya's assistant, Denis Kuchinsky, told reporters that her husband, opposition leader Sergei Tihanovsky, who was released from prison last year, is currently in the USA for security reasons.
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