An ‘accidental politician’

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00:00Okay, and of course two of the key opposition figures there in in Belarus in the 2020 election were jailed

00:07We're talking here about the Victor Babariko and Sergei Sergei Chikanovsky

00:12And he is in fact your husband, and I just want to ask you whether you imagined that you would one day become

00:19This figurehead of the opposition in Belarus or did it happen by accident?

00:25Absolutely, I never intended to go into politics and I call myself an accidental politician

00:31Because when my husband Sergei Chikanovsky announced he would run against dictator Lukashenko

00:36He was arrested immediately and I stood in his place not because I wanted to be politician

00:43but because someone had to continue the fight my husband started