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statements saying that they could never believe that their plea to be set free would be matched by alexander lukashenko you know the political analysts in belarus are trying to determine the reasons behind this move while the other sand political prisoners still remain in prisons in behind bars in belarus and their fate remains pretty much unclear at the moment this also being a reaction from the european union from the highest representative and international affairs and security catherine ashton who said that releasing these two prisoners is definitely a right move to improve relations between brussels and minsk and she demanded that the old other political prisoners must be set free as well definitely the ties between brussels and minsk have been very much strange after the events and in december when you joined the presidential election to crack down on the opposition in fact all kinds of old diplomatic missions to do the european union left immediately old twenty seven investors then the european union imposed sanctions umbrella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessman stil

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