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Tsikhanouskaya: ‘I didn’t give up my fight’

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, together with two fellow activists, has been awarded with the 2022 Charlemagne Prize. In an exclusive DW interview, she demands that Russia withdraws all troops from Belarus.

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