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Diplomat excoriates West for endangering public security by banning flights over Belarus In today’s European Union, "politics constantly elbows out common sense", Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova insisted MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. The recent ban on flights through Belarusian airspace demonstrates Western nations’ utter irresponsibility towards their citizens as well as their reckless endangerment of passenger security, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook on Friday. "What Western countries have done by prohibiting flights through ...

The news that a Russian agent was aboard the airliner was fake UNITED NATIONS, May 28. /TASS/. Reports that a Russian agent was allegedly aboard the Ryanair flight that made an emergency landing in Minsk on May 27 have nothing to do with reality, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations Organization Dmitry Polyansky told a briefing on Friday. "Naturally, we were unaware of that flight, and we cannot track each aircraft in the air," he noted. However, any government would have reacted to a bomb scare similarly, proceeding from the need to make people safe, the Ru...

According to the Russian Foreign Minister, Minsk has unilaterally made some of information public MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Western countries should stop demonizing Belarus following the Ryanair flight incident, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Thursday. "I would like to reiterate what Moscow has said many times. We insist that the West stop demonizing those it doesn’t like. The Belarusian authorities said right after the incident that they were ready to carry out an open and transparent investigation, welcome experts and provide all the relevant informatio...

After Belarus hijacking of Ryanair flight the EU leaders called on all European airlines to avoid Belarusian airspace. | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online |

Lithuania bans Belarusian airlines from entering its airspace According Lithuania’s Minister of Transportation Marius Skuodis, EU members decided that European airspace must be closed to Belarusian airlines VILNIUS, May 27. /TASS/. Lithuania barred Belarusian airlines and all carriers, licensed by Minsk, from entering the Baltic state’s airspace on Thursday. According Lithuania’s Minister of Transportation Marius Skuodis, EU members decided that European airspace must be closed to Belarusian airlines. Vilnius carried out this decision in practice immediately, the country’s transpor...