The team of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, president of Belarus’s Coordination Council and head of the Belarusian democratic government-in-exile, is one of the two organized opposition forces in Belarus. The other comprises Belarusian volunteer units fighting as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Tsikhanouskaya and her team have come a long way since their unexpected electoral success following the brutal suppression of protests by the regime of Belarusian pro-Kremlin dictator Alexander Lukashenko