"The Lithuanians Have Our Back": Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the Face of Fragmented Western Support

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10487126" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10487126 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40546-4_45" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40546-4_45</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40546-4_45" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-40546-4_45</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"The Lithuanians Have Our Back": Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the Face of Fragmented Western Support
Original language description
The chapter discusses the relationship between the Lithuanian authorities and the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader recognized as the national leader of Belarus by the West and exiled to Vilnius. The analysisfocuses on the period of 2020-2023. It argues that Tsikhanouskaya's Office and political activists from other opposition initiatives in exile, conducted by Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina in 2022-2023, as well as on public communication on social media and with independent media outlets. the United Transitional Cabinet, created in 2022, benefitted from fragmented Western funding and political support that made them more autonomous vis-a-vis the host state. To support its claims about the nature of the partnership between the Office and Lithuania, the chapter examines firstly the Office's long-standing reluctance to make a geopolitical choice in favor of the EU and, secondly, its protests against the attempts by the Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda to "harmonize" the sanctions against Belarusian and Russian citizens. The study relies on interviews with members of Tsikhanouskaya's Office/Cabinet and political activists from other opposition initiatives.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations
ISBN
978-3-031-40545-7
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
473-487
Number of pages of the book
932
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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