According to a report, Sergei Tikhanovskya, an opposition activist was one of 14 political prisoners released in Belarus and transported to Lithuania where he was reunited with his wife, Svetlana who is living in exile. Reportedly, the sudden release came as a u.s. special envoy visited the president of Belarus who Sergei was destructively critical of. According to the report, the video blogger who once toured the country in order to broadcast people’s views and had a big following on social media used to call on people to stop the cockroach, referring to Alexandr Lukashenko. Reportedly, he was arrested in 2020 and convicted of rallying mass protests after which his wife stepped in to replace him, but she was forced into exile following widespread protests.