<span fr-original-class="customBullet" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block;" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;">•&nbsp; Belarusian wink:&nbsp;Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why is it important?&nbsp;This is the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, is looking for ways to improve frozen relations with the West.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zoom out:&nbsp;In recent months, a slow but steady stream of prisoners, mostly people jailed for involvement in the anti-government 2020 protests, have been released in what analysts and opposition activists see as an effort by Lukashenko to carry favor with the West.</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Big picture:&nbsp;Lukashenko, long wary of becoming too dependent on Russia for economic and security support, has a long history of maneuvering between East and West, a game that ended abruptly after the post-election crackdown in 2020 but which he now appears eager to revive.</li></ul>

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