A Conversation with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Belarusian Democratic Movement
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian politician and the leader of the her country's democratic movement. In the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, she ran as the main opposition candidate after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky was arrested by Belarusian authorities. She will be in Washington, DC, April 27-29 to meet with members of the U.S. administration and congressional leadership, and to attend former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's funeral service.

She will meet with Belarusians at GW and discuss the current situation in Belarus in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine and the prospects for Belarusian opposition.
Tsikhanouskaya will be a guest speaker at "Between the EU and Russia: Domains of Diversity and Contestation," a conference held jointly by PONARS Eurasia and the BEAR Network. During the two-day conference, experts from the BEAR Network and PONARS Eurasia, as well as other guests, will take part in roundtables to discuss key research themes and policy implications related to diversity and contestation on the EU’s eastern borders and the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. View the full schedule here.

Friday, April 29th, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St. NW, Washington DC
Lindner Commons (Room 602)
This event is on the record, open to the public, and will be recorded.
PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. 
The BEAR Network – “Between the EU and Russia: Domains of Diversity and Contestation” – brings together 26 scholars from 11 universities in six countries to explore attempts to mobilize, influence, protect, and claim regional minority groups on the EU’s eastern borders, as well as to investigate how societal actors in the region draw upon, react to, and engage with the overlapping influences of the EU and Russia. The BEAR Network is supported by a Jean Monnet Network grant from the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU.