{"id":126109,"date":"2025-02-13T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"cichanouskajas-adviser-rejects-speculations-of-us-lawyers-release","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126109\/","title":{"rendered":"Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s adviser rejects speculations of US lawyer\u2019s release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 13, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Lawyer Jura\u015b Ziankovi\u010d is not the American who was released yesterday along with <em>RFE\/RL<\/em> journalist Andrej Ku\u017anie\u010dyk and protester Alena Ma\u016d\u0161uk, \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s chief adviser told <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franak Via\u010dorka commented on speculations that Ziankovi\u010d might have been freed after the state-run <em>ONT <\/em>television channel featured him in a propaganda broadcast last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ziankovi\u010d is a Belarusian politician who is also a US citizen. According to Viasna, he and others were detained in a conspiracy case in April 2021. Subsequently, the KGB and FSB claimed that they had prevented an assassination attempt on Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and his sons and &#8220;uncovered a coup.&#8221; Ziankovi\u010d was the only one of the five defendants in the case to make a deal with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Also read:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126085\/\">Belarus frees RFE\/RL journalist, unnamed US citizen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126107\/\">Pundit: Belarusian propaganda diverts attention from inmate release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, Pozirk. Lawyer Jura\u015b Ziankovi\u010d is not the American who was released yesterday along with RFE\/RL journalist Andrej Ku\u017anie\u010dyk and protester Alena Ma\u016d\u0161uk, \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s chief adviser told Pozirk. Franak Via\u010dorka commented on speculations that Ziankovi\u010d might have been freed after the state-run ONT television channel featured him in a propaganda broadcast last month. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-126109","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s adviser rejects speculations of US lawyer\u2019s release | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 13, Pozirk. 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