{"id":669647,"date":"2026-10-30T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669647\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:34:08","slug":"sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-from-chernobyl-child-to-president-elect-of-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669647\/","title":{"rendered":"Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: From Chernobyl child to president-elect of Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the woman recognised by many countries as the president-elect of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belarus\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belarus\/\">Belarus<\/a>, describes Ireland as her \u201csecond home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1990s she was one of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chernobyl\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chernobyl\/\">Chernobyl<\/a> children\u201d brought to Ireland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adi-roche\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adi-roche\/\">Adi Roche<\/a>. Then she was known as Sviatlana Pilipchuk and her hometown of Mikashevichy in the south of Belarus is just 30km from where the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the woman recognised by many countries as the president-elect of Belarus, describes Ireland as her \u201csecond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-669647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}