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Join the call for the release of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega, who are being held by Belarus authorities. Find out how you can help. Belarus journalist Protasevich and his girlfriend Sapega were on a flight from Athens to Vilnius on 23 May when the Belarusian government forced the plane to redirect to Minsk where […]

Estonia’s UN envoy sees possibility for more Security Council meetings on Belarus UN, June 1. /TASS/. The issue of Ryanair plane’s emergency landing in Belarus may once again be raised by the UN Security Council, Estonia’s UN envoy, Sven Jurgenson, has told reporters. "We’ve tried also to keep some slots ready for some events that might come up," he said at the press conference on Estonia’s upcoming UN Security Council presidency, adding that, due to the nature of the UN Security C...

Tsikhanouskaya welcomes the decision to introduce sanctions against Belarusian state-owned oil companies starting from June 3.

Border officials in Belarus have redoubled their efforts to discourage citizens from attempting to travel abroad unless they have permanent residency in a foreign country, as the West closes its skies to the country’s planes.

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday announced punitive measures against Belarus targeting the regime of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko, who met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid a global outcry over the forced diversion of a European plane.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called for "a credible international investigation into...

Lawyers are also preparing an appeal against the measure of restraint chosen against her

He demanded the release of Roman Protasevich, who was hauled off the flight between Greece to Lithuania after it was was intercepted by a Belarusian fighter and forced to land in Minsk.

“Personally, I was not expecting this kind of event to happen in 2021,” said Ciucă, who was speaking in the Romanian capital Bucharest during the Atlantic-Black Sea Security Forum, organised by the Aspen Institute Romania in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Ciucă added, however, that the hijacking should not remain without sanctions. “It is an attack on our way of life, on democracy,” he said. In Russia’s immediate neighbourhood, the downing of the p...

However, there are nine destinations the air carrier can still fly to

Ukraine will act immediately against any attempts to legitimize Russias occupation of Crimea, and if at least one plane of a Belarusian airline flies to the occupied Crimea, sanctions will be inevitable with all the negative consequences, Ukraines First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar has told Ukrinform. — Ukrinform.