{"id":542348,"date":"2026-05-14T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542348"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:07:54","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-and-von-der-leyen-discuss-support-for-belarusian-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-and-von-der-leyen-discuss-support-for-belarusian-media","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya And Von Der Leyen Discuss Support For Belarusian Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b><\/strong> met with President of the European Commission <strong><b>Ursula von der Leyen<\/b><\/strong> in Aachen. The leader of the Belarusian democratic forces called for continued support for Belarusian independent media, civic, cultural and educational initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of funding programmes supporting Belarusian organisations, journalists and democratic initiatives is currently being discussed within the European Union, Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Office reports.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBelarusian independent media, human rights defenders, educational and cultural initiatives continue to work and bring the truth to Belarusians despite pressure, repression and exile. It is very important that the European Union continues this support,\u201d<\/i> Tsikhanouskaya stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Aachen. The leader of the Belarusian democratic forces called for continued support for Belarusian independent media, civic, cultural and educational initiatives. The continuation of funding programmes supporting Belarusian organisations, journalists and democratic initiatives is currently being discussed within the European Union, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a060f7dbd03e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya And Von Der Leyen Discuss Support For Belarusian Media"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143172],"class_list":["post-542348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542348","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=542348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}