Posted on 06/21/2025 2:46:19 PM PDT by Apparatchik
Belarus has freed Sergey Tikhanovsky, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, following a rare visit by a senior US official, Tikhanovskaya’s team announced on Saturday.
Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger and activist who was jailed in 2020, arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, alongside 13 other political prisoners, his wife’s team said. The release came just hours after Belarusian authorities announced that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with US President Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in Minsk.
A video published on his wife’s official Telegram account showed Tikhanovsky disembarking a white minibus, with a shaved head and broad smile. He pulled Tikhanovskaya into a long embrace as their supporters applauded.
“My husband is free. It’s difficult to describe the joy in my heart,” Tikhanovskaya told reporters. But she added her team’s work is “not finished” while over 1,100 political prisoners remain behind bars in Belarus.
Tikhanovsky was jailed after announcing plans to challenge Lukashenko in the 2020 election. Following his arrest, his wife ran in his stead, rallying large crowds across the country. Official results of the election handed Lukashenko his sixth term in office but were denounced by the opposition and the West as a sham.
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CNN?
He’ll be dead in a week.
Team Trump
How ironic that you post images of stolen valor when you have no valor. You’re like an Eskimo screeching about cultural appropriation at some white dude in a sombrero. You don’t know what honorable service even is, Vatnik.
Aw, are you mad at me? Did I hurt your widdle feewings? Is it because you never did anything consequential in your life and you resent those of us who have?
Guess what, Vatnik?
I don’t care.
Hush, wannabe.
Aw, you are so cute, posting and reposting from my page like a busy little beaver, obsessed with revenge for making you look like such a fool.
Guess what - you don’t need any help in that department. Try rational thought for a change instead of cutting and pasting.
Keep going, sister. This is fun to watch!
Yes, more please. This is great stuff, girl.
C’mon, man - demand to see my DD-214 again. Demand all the details. Throw another hissy fit when I tell you to pound sand!
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