On Monday, Cichanousk met with Chamber of Deputies Speaker Markta Pekarová Adamová (TOP 09), Foreign Minister Jan Lipavska (Pirti) and President Petr Pavlo.
Weir will attend the One World Film Festival for the premiere of Walking the President, a film that charts his career.
During a multi-day visit to Prague, a conference of Belarusian diaspora took place in Cichanousk, the purpose of which was to bring together Belarusian organizations and communities from different countries or the office of the Belarusian Democratic Forces in the Czech Republic. was opened.
On Sunday, he unveiled a plaque commemorating the book printer Franz Skor, who lived in Prague in the 16th century and printed the first book in Old Belarusian.
Svyatlana Cichanousk and Senta leader Milo Vystril (ODS) together honored the memory of the President of Belarusian exiles in Olanské Hbitovy. Together with Vystril, they placed a flower on the grave.
Cichanousk, who lives in exile in Lithuania, is running for president in 2020 to replace her blogger husband Sjarhej Cichanouskho. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2021 for planning and organizing mass riots and inciting social hatred. In absentia, the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison last March. He was accused of plotting an unconstitutional seizure of power, which he declared as revenge for the Belarusian dictator scientist Alexander Lukenko.
