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West's mounting pressure on Belarus due to envy, impotence, malice, says Lukashenko Belarusian President noted that that all opponents of the government located abroad were well-known to authorities and "would be held responsible for their crimes according to the law" MINSK, May 26. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has attributed the West's pressure on Belarus to envy, impotence and malice, the news agency BelTA reports. Read also "Just look at the unprecedented pressure on our country, the way they want to teach us a lesson very aggressively, to show us our place, and to st...

Lukashenko Says Belarus Under Siege in First Appearance Since Ryanair Plane 'Hijacking' On 5/26/21 at 7:22 AM EDT Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko struck a defiant tone in his first appearance since the rerouting of a flight to arrest a dissident journalist, which has sparked outrage internationally. In a speech before the country's parliament in Minsk, Lukashenko defended the decision to scramble a MiG-29 to force the Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in the Belarusian capital on Sunday. Roman Protasevich, 26, a blogger who co-founded the Nexta Telegram channels giving...

WoE: the arrest of Roman Protasevich with Tadeusz Giczan, editor-in-chief of Belarus opposition Telegram channel Nexta By bne IntelliNews May 25, 2021 On May 23 Belarus scrambled a MiG-29 fighter to force down a Ryanair passenger plane flying over its territory and arrested a passenger, the former editor and co-founder of the opposition Nexta Telegram channel. He is now being held in the KGB detention centre in central Minsk but has not yet been formally charged. His girlfriend Sofia Sapega was also arrested and is in the same jail. Both...

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirm Sofia Sapega to receive all the assistance for legal defense MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Sofia Sapega, a young Russian woman, detained in Minsk after a Ryanair flight made an emergency landing in the Belarusian capital, will receive all the necessary consular and legal support, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. "Here, we can only say one thing, that all consular and legal protection will certainly be provided to the Russian female national," the Kremlin spokesman told reporters. As Peskov recalled, the Russian Foreign Ministry has also pl...

Archyde May 26, 2021 by archyde Photo: TASS Belavia has canceled flights to Stockholm until the end of October due to the Swedish government’s ban on the flights of Belarusian airlines. “We are forced to cancel all flights to and from Stockholm from May 26, 2021 to October 30, 2021”, – it says on the airline’s website. Belavia apologized to the passengers for the inconvenience and said that they could change the departure date or return the full cost of tickets. Prior to that, the airline was forced to cancel all flights unti...