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Did Trump free Belarus' opposition leader?

Vassili Golod
July 15, 2025

Donald Trump's special envoy is said to have secured the release of opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky in Belarus. The Lukashenko regime released him after more than five years in penal camps and prisons.

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