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Belarus frees key opposition figure Sergey Tikhanovsky following rare visit from top US envoy
CNN ^ | 21 June 2025 | AP

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alexanderlukashenko; belarus; dissidents; lukashenko; sergeytikhanovsky; stikhanovskaya; tikhanovskaya; trump; winning
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1 posted on 06/21/2025 2:46:19 PM PDT by Apparatchik
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CNN?


2 posted on 06/21/2025 3:06:13 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston
You don’t believe even factual reporting if it’s not from your Russian sources? Here you go dimwit- a source you know and love - TASS:

Belarus frees 14 prisoners at Trump’s request — Kellogg’s deputy

You do realize how stupid you look right now?
3 posted on 06/21/2025 3:47:46 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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He’ll be dead in a week.


4 posted on 06/21/2025 3:57:16 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Apparatchik

Team Trump


5 posted on 06/21/2025 4:33:50 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Apparatchik
"I will not say more here." - Commander Apparatchik


6 posted on 06/21/2025 4:48:36 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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I am a cowardly troll.
- Comrade Ivan Prestonivich
7 posted on 06/21/2025 5:18:58 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
"I will not say more here" - Cpl Apparatchik


8 posted on 06/21/2025 5:40:52 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

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.


9 posted on 06/21/2025 5:49:32 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
"Combatting Soviet aggression and terrorism" - Apparatchik


10 posted on 06/21/2025 5:51:49 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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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.


11 posted on 06/21/2025 6:17:12 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
"Yes I know what an apparatchik is, thanks to years of Russian language study" - Apparatchik


12 posted on 06/21/2025 6:28:26 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Hush, wannabe.


13 posted on 06/21/2025 6:30:38 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
"Thanks to years of Russian language study" - Apparatchik


14 posted on 06/21/2025 6:31:58 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

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.


15 posted on 06/21/2025 6:35:53 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
Maybe it's ironic. Maybe I just like it. Maybe I'm a stone-cold liar


16 posted on 06/21/2025 6:38:22 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Keep going, sister. This is fun to watch!


17 posted on 06/21/2025 6:41:57 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik
"No, I didn't have a teenage girl write my Homepage" - Apparatchik


18 posted on 06/21/2025 6:43:53 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Yes, more please. This is great stuff, girl.


19 posted on 06/21/2025 6:44:56 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: JonPreston

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!


20 posted on 06/21/2025 6:46:36 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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