UPDATE: Tikhanovskaya speaks: Clearly distressed, she says she left Belarus for her children’s sake. “God forbid you have to face the choice I had to face.”
Tikhanovskaya says she supposed she’s still the “weak woman” she was at the start of this. She says she knows that many people will condemn her and many others will understand her decision. She adds that “children are the most important things in life.”
Situation gets weirder: In video apparently recorded before she left Belarus, reading from script, Tikhanovskaya calls on Belarusians to accept Lukashenko’s “victory” and stop protesting. We know she was held incommunicado at election commission yday. Seems this happened there.
