Trump Got Her Husband Out of Prison in Belarus. Here’s What She Wants Him to Know.

Politico ^ | 07 12 2025 | Gregory Svirnovskiy

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, an opposition leader in Belarus, hadn’t heard from her husband Siarhei in more than two years. Not since Belarusian authorities placed him in “incommunicado” detention, in full isolation. And then he called her.

“My dear wife,” he said. “I’m free.”

He had been released from prison after negotiations between authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Trump administration officials, and was at the border between Belarus and Lithuania. He and 13 other political prisoners were heading to the American embassy in Vilnius.

Tsikhanouskaya and Siarhei have since reintroduced him to their children, traveled to a solidarity rally in Poland and done interviews with major news outlets. But both Tsikhanouskaya and her husband, a blogger and political activist who was preparing to challenge Lukashenko in Belarus’ 2020 election when he was imprisoned, are grappling with the opposition’s role in what comes next.

In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, Tsikhanouskaya described the joy of finally reuniting her family even as she said there was far more work to be done. She also made clear that a certain peace-seeking president could help her cause.

“We ask President Trump, go further, free them all,” she said. “Use your influence again. We believe that you can do this, and Belarusians will never forget it.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belarus; dirtymaximus; dirtyzeeper; europe; gregorysvirnovskiy; putinthewarpig; russiankeywordtroll; russiansuicide; trump; vladtheimploder

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m surprised that there is a true opposition leader in Belarus. Belarus remained a Communist country in all but name after the Soviet Union fell.

[DIRTYSECRET]

If peace breaks out in Ukraine Zelensky needs to send them a missile directed at the parliament building in Minsk.

[nuconvert]

The writer apparently wants us to guess when he was freed.

[silverleaf]

Color revolution coming up in 3..2…1….

[silverleaf]

“ true opposition leaders” funded by they-who-must-not-be-named….

[Vigilanteman]

Yeah, I noticed that as well.

Years ago, I majored in journalism and was taught that the 5 Ws and 1 H was supposed to be in the first paragraph of the story.

Apparently, you don't worry about those things now as long as you are pushing the leftist agenda.

[Wuli]

To some in this forum these days, any talk or support for democracy anywhere is a “color revolution”, which is nothing other than a pretense that many other folks would NOT like to have the political freedoms we do.

[Thank You Rush]

You could probably pick maybe 10 out of 50 who remembered that IF they were ever taught it to begin with...

Bill Buckley said years ago it was OK to end a sentence with a preposition but now even the WWW says so.....

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I’m surprised that there is a true opposition leader in Belarus.

Heck there was a true opposition leader in RUSSIA.

Remember Alexei Navalny?

He was Russia’s most prominent opposition figure and a longstanding critic of President Vladimir Putin.

He died on February 16, 2024, at just 47, while serving a lengthy prison sentence at the remote “Polar Wolf” penal colony in Russia’s Arctic Circle.

Let’s just hope and pray that those in Belarus don’t suffer the same fate…

[Dr. Sivana]

Years ago, I majored in journalism and was taught that the 5 Ws and 1 H was supposed to be in the first paragraph of the story.

Apparently, you don't worry about those things now as long as you are pushing the leftist agenda.

It is not just that. In the online world, key pieces of information are buried to force you to click, scroll, and click some more. Often misleading headlines are used, and the promised payoff is NOWHERE in the story. In the old days, you bought a newspaper or a newsmagazine, and there was no perverse incentive to withhold the payoff.

Also, the ability to write well is not common anymore.

You can look at any local newspaper from a small city in the 1940s, and the quality of writing was markedly better then.

[themidnightskulker]

I think most articles are written by AI, and are slightly modified by actual humans then submitted.

There is a pretty good chance that these same articles are edited by AI then glanced at by a human who will fix only the most obvious mistakes.

I would love to run all stories through an AI and have it generate a report on what percentage of the product is computer generated.

It is a tool currently being used in colleges and high schools to weed out plagiarism and robo authors.

[Dr. Sivana]

You can tell an AI to include the five Ws and one H in the first paragraph.

(from Co-Pilot AI):

📌 Five Ws and One H Summary Paragraph: Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s husband, Siarhei, a jailed activist, was released from "incommunicado" detention. He and 13 other political prisoners were freed following U.S.-led negotiations, led by the Trump administration, and are now advocating for further democratic reforms. After over two years of isolation ending in March 2023, his release occurred recently amid evolving diplomatic efforts. He was freed near the Belarus–Lithuania border and moved to Vilnius; they’ve since appeared across Europe, including rallies in Poland. His release was part of a push by the Trump administration to reduce Belarus’s authoritarian grip and influence over regional conflict, while Tsikhanouskaya urges further U.S. pressure to prevent Belarus from falling deeper under Russian control. Through strategic diplomatic engagement by American officials, including Gen. Keith Kellogg, and cooperation with the EU, which gave Tsikhanouskaya renewed hope for change.

AI tries to respond to human inputs. This is NOT a bad summary.