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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on...

© Getty Belarus’s diversion of a commercial flight to arrest an opposition activist and journalist last week “has to have consequences,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. NATO has strongly condemned the May 23 incident, during which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered that a Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania be diverted to Minsk so that Roman Protasevich, a journalist and activist, could be taken from the plane and arrested. In response, the United States announced last week that it would reimpose full blocking sanctions against nine st...

Raman Pratasevich repented for his opposition activities and said he respects Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko as ‘a man with balls of…

  Belarus has temporarily banned all its citizens from traveling outside of the country, attributing the move to the COVID-19 pandemic. The BBC reports that the travel ban applies to all residents except for Belarusian civil servants on official trips, state transport staff and residents with permanent residence in other countries. Foreigners may only leave the country after a 10-day period of self-isolation. ADVERTISEMENT This decision comes shortly after the plane that opposition reporter Rama Pratasevich, 26, and his girlfriend were on was diverted over Belarus and both were detained in ...

Belarusian leader defends his action to divert flight YURAS KARMANAU, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9FILE - In this March 19, 2012, file photo, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko looks at the media in the Grand Kremlin Palace at the start of the Euro Asian Economic Union summit, a Russia-dominated economic alliance, in Moscow, Russia. When Lukashenko became president in 1994, Belarus was an obscure country that had not even existed for three years. Over the next quarter-century, he brought it to the world's notice via dramatic repression, erratic behavior and col...