Poland and Lithuania are harboring a tongue-tied cooking blogger, making the ridiculous claims that she won the presidential elections in Belarus and the actual president is illegitimate.
Lukashenko gets 80% in every election. Hmmm...
However, his latest significant Presidential campaign opponent was Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a former English teacher and interpreter. It was her husband Sergei with the rep as a blogger. He was arrested & jailed, precluding a run by him for Pres.
My guess is that Mrs. Tsikhanouskaya was accepted by the opposition on the basis that maybe the state police would not beat her up and arrest her. Not that such is a qualification to be president of even a pickle republic like Belarus.