Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya appealed for help for her country on meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Tuesday.Tikhanovskaya presented the chancellor with a white and red umbrella in the colours used during the long-running mass demonstrations in Belarus against President Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed return to power.After the 45-minute meeting with Merkel, she issued a statement over the Telegram messaging service reemphasizing that the protests in her country were “not a fight against Russia or Europe,” but a consequence of the crisis over the …
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