PresidentAlexanderLukashenko ordered the mass release on March 19 ...U.S ... However, human rights advocates pointed out the ethical concerns of the deal ... Despite the breakthrough, significant concerns remain for those still behind bars ... ....
The Trump administration made the move in exchange for Belarus’s freeing of 250 political prisoners, part of a rapprochement between the two countries ... .
EU authorities imposed the sanctions after determining that he had financially supported the government of Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko, widely criticized by Western governments for corruption and authoritarian governance.
The UnionState is a supranational formation of Russia and Belarus, with a gradually organized unified political, economic, military, customs, currency, legal, humanitarian, market, and cultural space ....
Maria Kolesnikova called on European leaders to reopen diplomatic channels with AlexanderLukashenko. She said such a move seemed the only way to ease the plight of political prisoners and their families ... .