By Andrius Sytas and Mark Trevelyan VILNIUS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Belarus has agreed to free 25 prisoners in return for a ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. envoy John Coale, tasked ⁠by ⁠President Donald Trump with ⁠negotiating the release of political prisoners in Belarus, returned to ​Minsk on Tuesday for his first talks in six ...

The U.S. special envoy for Belarus said Wednesday that the country’s authorities have agreed to release 25 prisoners in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions against two Belarusian companies.

By Andrius Sytas and Mark Trevelyan VILNIUS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Belarus freed 25 prisoners on Wednesday in return for a ...

The deal is part of the Trump administration’s more transactional approach to a close Russian ally that Europe has tried to ...

The Trump administration said more releases would be secured soon amid improved US-Belarus relations.

U.S. engagement with Belarusian ⁠President ⁠Alexander Lukashenko has succeeded in freeing hundreds ⁠of political prisoners ...

"The U.S, in turn, will lift sanctions from two Belarusian companies" — Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom, said Washington's special envoy John Coale.

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BELARUS is simulating war games with tanks and drone units near Nato’s “weakest link” next to Poland’s border. Russia’s ...

This week 25 former political prisoners arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania having been released from detention in Belarus.

The deal was part of lengthy negotiations in which Washington is urging strongman Alexander Lukashenko to free hundreds of ...