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EU ambassadors have today agreed a plan to ban Belarus airlines from flying over EU territory or landing in EU airports.

Why journalists and dissidents turn to Telegram Dissenting voices from across the world are using the software to plan protests and share information 04 Jun 2021 As you scroll through your Telegram feed, one image jumps out. It shows crowds of young Hong Kongers, all dressed in black, at a protest, holding their smartphones aloft like virtual cigarette lighters from a Telegram channel called HKerschedule. Calls to action like this have migrated from fly posters and other highly visible methods...

Belarusian Nexta Live channel planned to switch to Russian agenda - blogger Protasevich It was discussed that after the end of the active phase of Belarusian protests the Nexta Live channel would become Russian, blogger Roman Protasevich said MINSK, June 3. /TASS/. Blogger Roman Protasevich, one of the co-founders of the Nexta Telegram channel, which Minsk recognized as an extremist entity, who was detained at Minsk airport, has stated that after the active part of Belarusian rallies related to...

When groups allied with a government conduct illegal actions, those actions are referred to as state-sponsored. A “state-sponsored killing,” a “state-sponsored terror attack.”

U.S. plans to impose sanctions on Belarus after Ryanair’s plane was diverted The White House also called for a “reliable international investigation” on the forced landing of the Ryanair plane in Minsk. U.S. announces punitive measures against Belarus as Russia provide President Alexander Lukashenko supported the forced transfer of European aircraft and the arrest of dissidents in the confrontation with the West. in a statement On Friday, the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called t...

Telegram became a cornerstone of last summer’s anti-government protests.

It was a clear act of state-sponsored terrorism. An Irish passenger plane from the Irish budget airline Ryan Air, while on its way from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk on May 23 only minutes before it was due to leave Belarus’ airspace. Flimsy claims by Belarusian air traffic controller that a bomb was on board quickly turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the dictatorial regime of the country’s long time leader Alexander Lukashenko. In reality, Lukashe...

Telegram became a cornerstone of last summer’s anti-government protests.

What happened to Ryanair Flight 4978 this weekend sounds like something out of a pulpy spy novel. The plane, traveling nonstop from Greece to Lithuania, was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after pilots got a message from air traffic control that there was a bomb on board. When the plane landed, Belarusian authorities pulled off a 26-year-old Belarusian dissident, Roman Protasevich, whom President Alexander Lukashenko had been trying to capture for years. His 23-year-old girlfriend was detained too....

What happened in Belarus?And why a reporter got off the plane and escaped and was arrested As civilian planes fled the airspace, Belarus’s isolation deepened, the European Union enacted new sanctions and officials expressed concern about the welfare of opposition journalists. Roman Protasevich was arrested on Sunday because he was removed from a plane transferred to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in what the West calls a state-sponsored hijacking. The plane flew from Greece to Lithuania. Take...