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00:00Just so that our audience understands, you're joining us from Lithuania, and I'm assuming
00:05that's because if you were in Belarus, you wouldn't be safe.
00:08Tell us why that is.
00:09You know, back in 2020, I was a presidential candidate, and according to all votes counting,
00:17I won elections, KGB forced me to leave the country.
00:24And they thought if the leader is in exile, so all the uprising, you know, resistance
00:30will stop.
00:31But it wasn't our case, because several months in a row, uprising demonstrations on the people
00:38of Belarus continued, just they demanded Lukashenko to leave.
00:42So for this almost five years already in exile, you know, Lukashenko's regime started trial
00:53against me.
00:54I was sentenced for 15 years in absentia.
00:57And of course, I can't return home because I will be immediately jailed.