Six years ago, Siarhei Tsikhanouski helped spark Belarus’s mass protests and brought his wife, Sviatlana, into politics. After five years in prison, he’s struggling to regain influence — and now publicly attacks the opposition leader he helped create. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/11/12/he-sparked-belarus-2020-protests-and-brought-his-wife-into-politics-then-spent-five-years-in-prison-as-she-became-the-country-s-opposition-leader-now-he-s-her-loudest-critic