One could be forgiven for thinking that Maria Kalesnikava and Tatsiana Khomich are not sisters. Apart from the pitch of their voices and the same warm eyes, the two siblings look nothing alike and couldn’t be more different. However, since Maria’s imprisonment as part of a brutal government crackdown in Belarus, Tatsiana has found herself championing her sister’s cause and that of the more than nine million Belarusians living under increasingly dictatorial rule.

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