According to AFP, housewife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya will meet with high-ranking White House representatives in Washington next week, TASS reports.
“Senior White House officials are looking forward to meeting with Tikhanovskaya next week during her trip to Washington. The United States will continue to support the democratic aspirations of the Belarusian people”, – the agency’s source said.
It is noted that Tikhanovskaya will meet “with representatives of the American authorities, members of Congress and foreign ambassadors to the United States,” including the US Ambassador to Minsk Julie Fisher.
In the summer of 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus, in which the current head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, won by a wide margin. Housewife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who took second place, did not recognize the results of the vote and declared herself “the winner of the election”.