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MOSCOW -- Court bailiffs have again come to the offices of RFE/RL’s Moscow bureau and Current Time -- photographing computers and other editorial equ

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s Divergent Responses to Regional Border Conflict Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 84 Kyrgyzstani special police patrol border area with Tajikistan Border conflicts of various levels of intensity occur regularly in Central Asia, but the latest clashes between nationals of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan that broke out at the end of April was the deadliest such incident in a long time, with 55 killed and 266 injured on both sides over a period of three d...

One day after his dramatic arrest at a Minsk airport, Belarusian blogger Raman Pratasevich appeared in a video and admitted to inciting mass unrest. But his shaken look and signs of possible mistreatment harked back to forced confessions that remain common in parts of the former U.S.S.R.

Court bailiffs have again searched the offices of RFE/RL’s Moscow bureau and Current Time -- photographing computers and other editorial equipment they’ve threatened to seize over unpaid fines imposed under Russia’s controversial “foreign agents” law.

Father Of Journalist Detained In Belarus: Release My Son! width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:16 0:00 The father of independent journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich told Current Time on May 25 said that he had no information about his sons whereabouts. Dzmitry Pratasevich also said he had no reason to trust a video published online in which his son purportedly "confesses" to crimes, saying he saw clear signs of a beating. Raman Pratasevich was detained after Belarus forced ...

Lukashenkas KGB Could Be In Vilnius, Kyiv, And Warsaw, Says Belarusian Opposition Figure May 25, 2021 14:46 GMT width No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:04 0:00 An adviser to exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya says that she or any of her colleagues could have been in the same situation as activist Raman Pratasevich. He was detained after his flight was forced to land in Minsk by the Belarusian authorities. Franak Viacorka also said the Belarusian KGB could b...

EU Leaders Call For Sanctions Against Belarus Over Ryanair Hijacking To Detain Journalist May 23, 2021 23:04 GMT width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 Share share Print A chorus of EU leaders called for swift sanctions after Belarus’s authoritarian ruler forced a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk and detained a prominent opposition journalist, in what was widely condemned as a state-sponsored hijacking of a commercial flight. Ahead of a preplanned EU leaders’ summit on Ma...

After the Belarusian security services allegedly "hijacked" a passenger plane that journalist Raman Pratasevich was traveling in and forced it to land in Minsk on May 23, he reportedly told fellow passengers: "They will execute me here."

Aviation Expert Explains How Belarus Fighter Jet Could Have Forced Ryanair Plane To Land May 24, 2021 17:47 GMT width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:57 0:00 On May 23, the Belarusian authorities forced the pilots of a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius over the territory of Belarus to divert and land at Minsk airport. In an interview with Current Time on May 24, Russian aviation expert Vadim Lukashevich spoke about how Minsk could have forced the plane to land and about ...

A Belarusian journalist has been detained by police after the commercial passenger aircraft in which he was traveling from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk due to a purported bomb threat. Raman Pratasevich was taken away by police shortly after his Ryanair flight landed in the Belarusian capital. Pratasevich was a key administrator of the Telegram channel NEXTA Live, which covered the protests that broke out in Belarus following the country's disputed presidential election last Augu...