After the election commission refused to register Tikhanovsky's candidacy, his wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, decided to run herself. The initiative group of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was successfully registered by the Central Election Commission of Belarus.Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, wife of the blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky: To become president "has been dreaming all my life". // Radio Liberty Sergei Tikhanovsky became the head of the initiative group to collect signatures for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's participation in the presidential election.
