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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has refused to recognise the result of the latest general election, as the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko won a sixth term as president according to an exit poll with 80 per cent of the vote. Ms Tikhanovskaya spent many summers in Roscrea in County Tipperary where she received respite following the Chernobyl disaster