{"id":570195,"date":"2026-08-22T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570195"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:59:10","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-people-saw-the-image-of-another-belarus-in-aliaksandr-milinkevich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-people-saw-the-image-of-another-belarus-in-aliaksandr-milinkevich","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya: People Saw The Image Of Another Belarus In Aliaksandr Milinkevich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> spoke at the <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/aliaksandr-milinkevich-s-funeral-held-in-warsaw\">farewell ceremony for <b>Aliaksandr Milinkevich<\/b><\/a>, which is being held today at the Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the democratic forces described Milinkevich as a person people wanted to look up to and as an embodiment of a European Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe was a politician whom we were never ashamed of. Someone we wanted to look up to. Belarusians saw in him a decent and responsible leader. And they saw another Belarus \u2014 normal, non-Soviet, European. He lived for Belarus. He breathed Belarus. For him, the personal and the national were inseparable. And he loved our people very much. This love made him so close to them. Close to very different people. Thank you for everything you managed to do. Belarusians will miss you very much. May his memory be a blessing\u201d<\/i>, she <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tsikhanouskaya\/9619\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the service, the funeral procession will proceed to the Pow\u0105zki Military Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Milinkevich\u2019s death was reported on Aug. 11. In November last year, he underwent a complicated carotid artery operation. He remained in serious condition for a long time afterward and underwent rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke at the farewell ceremony for Aliaksandr Milinkevich, which is being held today at the Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw. The leader of the democratic forces described Milinkevich as a person people wanted to look up to and as an embodiment of a European Belarus. \u201cHe was a politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":570194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a899d233b2cb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya: People Saw The Image Of Another Belarus In Aliaksandr Milinkevich"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143248,143172],"class_list":["post-570195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-polsha","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570195","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=570195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}