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A question of ‘air piracy’ and strident rhetoric 4 hours ago Airport personnel and security forces are seen on the tarmac in front of a Ryanair flight which was forced to land in Minsk, Belarus, on May 23, 2021. File/Reuters Leonid Bershidsky, Tribune News Service The double standards defence is the Kremlin’s go-to device whenever it’s accused of wrongdoing: “You Westerners have no moral right to point fingers because you do it too.” It’s telling that Russia has u...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The double standards defense is the Kremlin’s go-to device whenever it’s accused of wrongdoing: “You Westerners have no moral right to point fingers because you do it too.

Skyjacking could bring down pariah state The extraordinary forced landing of a commercial flight with a Belarusian dissident aboard escalated into one of the biggest flare-ups in East-West tensions in recent years. Anton‌ ‌Troianovski‌ Save Share The tray tables were being raised and the seat backs returned to their upright positions as passengers on Ryanair Flight 4978 prepared for the scheduled landing in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Then the plane made an abrupt U-turn. Fo...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   May 25, 2021 01:10 AM EDT (Photo : Omar Marques/Getty Images) After the Belarus hijack of Ryanair to bring the dissident journalist Roman Protasevich to Minsk, the international community was concerned about his welfare. A video was released a day after an airline carrying activist Roman Protasevich on board was forced down with a fake bomb threat that eventually led to his arrest by Belarusian authorities on Sunday in Minsks capital ci...

>> Anton Troianovski, The New York Times Published: 25 May 2021 12:01 PM BdST Updated: 25 May 2021 12:38 PM BdST People hold paper planes during a protest against the detention of Belarusian blogger, Roman Protasevich, who was detained as a Ryanair plane that he was on, en route from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to land in Minsk on Sunday, in Warsaw, Poland, May 24, 2021. Dawid Zuchowicz/Agencja Gazeta/via REUTERS The tray tables were being raised and the seat backs returned to their upright...

by Tyler Durden Monday, May 24, 2021 - 04:50 PM A growing number of European carriers, including all airlines based in the United Kingdom, are now avoiding entry into Belarus airspace following Sundays dramatic events involving the diversion of a Ryanair flight carrying Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Pratasevich. The BBC is confirming that "The UK government has told airlines to avoid Belarusian airspace after a Ryanair flight was diverted to Minsk and an opposition journalist arres...