Among those released was prominent opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova. She was one of dozens of political prisoners freed near the Belarus-Ukraine border. In neighboring Lithuania, Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski was let go at the US embassy in the capital Vilnius. Authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko agreed to the pardons as part of a US-brokered deal.
00:00 Belarus releases 123 political prisoners
01:18 Konstantin Eggert, DW Eastern Europe and Russia analyst
05:31 Hanna Liubakova, Belarusian journalist and political analyst with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center
10:20 Katia Glod, Belarus and Russia expert at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre and Center for European Policy Analysis
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