Until a week ago, Sergei Tikhanovsky was arguably the most famous political prisoner in jail in Belarus.

The Belarusian dissident and blogger was arrested in 2020 as he began his presidential campaign against the country’s autocratic leader challenge Alexander Lukashenko.

He was sentenced to 18 years in jail, but he was unexpectedly released last week, after a sudden meeting between Lukashenko and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, General Keith Kellogg.

Guest: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, opposition leader of Belarus, in exile in LithuaniaProducer: Anne Barker