{"id":519697,"date":"2026-02-21T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=519697"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:53:43","slug":"sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-our-language-is-our-strength-and-it-will-live-in-a-free-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-our-language-is-our-strength-and-it-will-live-in-a-free-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Our Language Is Our Strength, And It Will Live In A Free Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Mother Language Day, <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> stressed the importance of preserving the Belarusian language as a bearer of the country\u2019s history and culture.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOn Mother Language Day, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we celebrate Belarusian \u2014 our language carries our history and culture.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even as the regime tries to erase it and destroy our national identity, Belarusians will not be silenced.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our language is our strength.\u00a0 And it will live on in a free Belarus<\/span>,\u201d<\/em> the leader of the democratic forces wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tsihanouskaya\/status\/2025155260533141832?s=20\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mother Language Day, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya stressed the importance of preserving the Belarusian language as a bearer of the country\u2019s history and culture. \u201cOn Mother Language Day, we celebrate Belarusian \u2014 our language carries our history and culture. Even as the regime tries to erase it and destroy our national identity, Belarusians will not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":519696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6999aadd1eb96.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Our Language Is Our Strength, And It Will Live In A Free Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}