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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Minsk will soon receive the second $500 million tranche of the $1.5 billion dollar loan. …

Foreign Minister Vladimir Makey rejected allegations that the Belarusian fighter jet had forced the flight to land in Minsk

Routes are changed with the consent of the Russian authorities.

Mr Putin warmly greeted his Belarusian counterpart and agreed with him the outcry over the plane and arrest of an opposition journalist was an "outburst of emotion".

Read more about US announces sanctions on Belarus over dissident journalists detention on Business Standard. Belarus earlier this week forced the landing of a jetliner carrying Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist and outspoken critic of the Lukashenko regime, as it was traveling between Greece and Lithuania

The US has gone to punish Belarus forced landing reporting on a Ryanair flight last weekend that it would re-impose sanctions on nine state-owned comp

The US announced on Friday it was working with the EU on punitive sanction measures against key members of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's government in response to the forced diversion o…

Meeting in Black Sea resort of Sochi comes as Belarus shunned by the West

The United States has 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 the events of May 23," which she called

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.