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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya expects European democracies to give greater hope and support to people in her home country if there is to be an end to oppression there. European leaders must show the Belarusians that they are not forgotten and that they belong to the democratic world, the activist said at a forum in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Friday, the BNS news agency reported. According to Tsikhanouskaya, who was driven into exile by Belarus’ authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, people who had lived under oppression for so many years needed a …