MOSCOW—When Svetlana Tikhanovskaya walked into Belarus’s election commission to complain she had been cheated out of a win in last weekend’s presidential election, her campaign team expected her to quickly emerge to carry on the fight.
Instead, she disappeared, resurfacing the next day in Lithuania. In a video posted on social media, she called for her supporters to end their protests and accept the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, as their president.
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