measure. thank you, my friend. enjoy your home. thanks to you at home for being with us. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine in the world david remnick was moscow correspondent for the washington post and in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick will be joining us live in a few minutes as we try to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is neverthe
to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of n increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round of hard right, very controversial,e possibly very unpopular rulings. we ve got more on that ahead tonight ahead of what is expected to be a big day at the court tomorrow. we are also watching one rr particular federal court in south florida. tonight the trump appointed judge who will apparently be tr overseeing the federal criminal trial of former president trump issued an order about witnesses in
christian dog ran, nbc news. teamwork making the dream work. and on that note, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. it s really good to have you here. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine and the world, david remnick was a moscow correspondent for the washington post. he in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick is gonna be here joining us live in just a few minutes, as we all try to make sense of this latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering, after 23 years consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. again, david remnick will be joining us live on that story in just a moment. we a
athens, greece, and it flew north. it was supposed to be a nonstop flight from greece to lithuania about a three-hour flight, three hours five minutes. but on that flight path the last country that you fly over before you get to lithuania is the country of belarus. and once that ryanair flight, that commercial flight about 170 people on board, once that ryanair flight was over belarus, the government of belarus contacted the plane and said you cannot continue your flight. there is a security risk on board. we are sending a fighter jet to escort you down. here. now. you are not going to go to lithuania. we will not let you. you are if our air space and we are going to make you land in the capital of belarus instead in minsk. one woman who was on board the plane told abc news at the time that it was totally out of the blue for everybody on board the plane. she said the crew didn t say anything to the passengers about the plane being forced down and diverted into another country. she said
plunged. she said, quote, we all on the plane panicked because we thought we were going to crash. this was a sudden dive, changing the altitude very drastically. it was very violent. i ve never felt this on an airplane. everybody was in shock. so the fighter jet forces this passenger airplane down. it lands at minsk. nobody knows why. once they re on the ground bell belarusan police storm the plane and grab a guy a 26-year-old blogger, a television channel that was critical of belarus s leader and in support of a protest that had sprung up in 2020 after belarus s dictator really appeared to have lost an election but decided he was going to stay in power anyway. i mean it is an amazing thing, right? in modern day europe this dictator used a mig fighter jet