{"id":4367,"date":"2025-12-15T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/what-is-the-significance-of-trumps-deal-with-belarus\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:44:08","slug":"what-is-the-significance-of-trumps-deal-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/what-is-the-significance-of-trumps-deal-with-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the significance of Trump\u2019s deal with Belarus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has eased sanctions on Belarus after the close Russian ally freed more than 100 political prisoners.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>United States President Donald Trump has eased sanctions on Belarus after it freed more than 100 political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>But stiff European sanctions remain in place against the close Russian ally.<\/p>\n<p>Why has the US deal been struck now, and what is the reaction in Russia, Ukraine and the European Union?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya \u2013 Belarusian opposition leader<\/p>\n<p>Franak Viacorka \u2013 non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council<\/p>\n<p>Mark Episkopos \u2013 research fellow at Quincy Institute\u2019s Eurasia programme<\/p>\n<p>Andrey Kortunov \u2013 Russian foreign affairs analyst<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has eased sanctions on Belarus after the close Russian ally freed more than 100 political prisoners. United States President Donald Trump has eased sanctions on Belarus after it freed more than 100 political prisoners. But stiff European sanctions remain in place against the close Russian ally. Why has the US deal been struck &#8230; <a title=\"What is the significance of Trump\u2019s deal with Belarus?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/what-is-the-significance-of-trumps-deal-with-belarus\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is the significance of Trump\u2019s deal with Belarus?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}