Maria Kolesnikova, the Tsepkalo and Tikhanovskaya ally who remains in Belarus, has criticized the EU’s planned sanctions against Minsk as premature, warning that the penalties may make a dialogue with the authorities difficult if not impossible dw.com/ru/marija-kole… The pushback would seem to suggest that the opposition — or a segment of it — is still counting on a negotiated transfer of power, such as through round table talks