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Could the Russian Opposition Deliver Meaningful Change in the Kremlin?
6 March 2023
12 October 2020
Every year, Globsec and the Czech Euro-Atlantic Council Jagello 2000 honour personalities who have significantly contributed to the quality of transatlantic relations. This year’s Freedom Award were granted to Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as well as the former Czech foreign affairs minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
Below you can read the laudatio given by Pavol Demeš to celebrate Tsikhanouskaya and her outstanding leadership and the courage of all the Belarusian people in their struggle for democracy.
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Excellencies,
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Pavol Demeš is a former foreign minister of Slovakia and a member of the Board of Governors of the European Endowment for Democracy.
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