Belarus, the closest ally of Russia, released the two centuries and two other other people, the exiled opposition group, the latest traffic, President of Belarus Alexander G. Lukashenko searched for the roads Improve frozen relationships with the West.
Belarusian neighbor, the opposition group, led by Lithuanian, Lithuanian, Lithuanian, said that Western diplomats are visited by the Assistant Secretary of State in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, US Secretary of State. Christopher W. Smith. The group did not recognize America released.
State Department, Mr. Smith, an American officer in the first leadership of President Trump, did not meet the messages that Mike Pompeo did not meet the messages from Belarus to “normalize” in 2020.
Last month, Mr. Smith, who owned the Biden administration, provided the release of another American citizen in Belarus, Anastassia nuhfer.
Franak Viacorka, Chief of General Staff, MS. Told to tohanovskaya A video published in Telegram The United States visited the Embassy of Vilnius and Lithuania and described as an activist Alena Sazuk, said he was released.
It was not called released American, but a third party liberal man, a journalist, who is the Belarusian service, which is funded by the American, said he was a journalist Andrei Kuznechyk.
The authorities of the Lithuanian government said an American citizen entered Baltic from Belarus on Wednesday. They did not give a name or. They said that Mr. Smith was now in Vilnius and will hold meetings with European diplomats on Thursday.
Since Mr. Pompeo's visit to Minsk in 2020 in 2020, relations between Belarus and the West went from worse than the worse of Lukashenko's poisoning brutal dwarf With their opponents and Western governments, the national street protests were Rixed presidential elections in August 2020, he said.
In February 2022, Turkey's full-scale occupation of Russia to Ukraine, further obsolete relations. The United States closed the Embassy in Minsk immediately after the start of the occupation.
However, in recent months, but people arrested to participate in the protest of 2020, but were released in order to take part in 2020 protests, the people of opposition activists saw the country for the cold.
Mr. Lukashenko has a long history to be long-term to depend on Russia for economic and security support Maneuvering between East and WestIn 2020, after the post-election raids, a sudden ending game, but now he is eager to revive.
In 2020, the early rival was Sergei Tixhanovsky, but was later arrested shortly after announcing his candidacy and then sentenced to 18 years in prison. His wife, Ms. Thanovskaya, was nominated in his place, but shortly after the election, he fled the country and was sentenced to 15 years.
Prominent critics were either exile or imprisoned, and all potential competitors in the presidential election in the last month, Mr. Lukashenko was still croosted to another sliding victoryA number of sevdens, 81 percent more than 81 percent, the controversial 2020 elections claimed.