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Share on Twitter Airlines have re-routed flights to avoid Belarus's airspace and Belarusian planes face a possible ban from Europe as international outrage mounted over the forcing down of a jetliner and arrest of a dissident journalist on board. European Union members accused Belarus of hijacking and piracy over the interception of the Ryanair plane as it crossed the country on a flight from Greece to Lithuania, and diplomats said France, Ireland and Estonia would raise the incident at a private meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. "The behaviour of the Be...

Analysts say Moscow’s muted reaction to the diversion to Minsk of a Ryanair flight speaks to the Kremlin’s ambivalent view of the strongman.

Other Regimes Will Hijack Planes Too Anne Applebaum © Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty / Mindaugas Kulbis / AP Even when our most basic civilizational values are in dispute, there are a few sets of rules and regulations that we nevertheless manage to share. The laws of the sea, for example, or the norms governing the conduct of air-traffic controllers. Pilots of any nationality, even when flying to Caracas, Havana, or Pyongyang, have no reason to believe that the instructions they receive from the ground are political or deceitful, or meant to achieve any purpose other than a ...

After Plane Crisis, Is Belarusian President Lukashenko Becoming a Troublesome Partner for Russia? Analysts say Moscow’s muted reaction to the diversion to Minsk of a Ryanair flight speaks to the Kremlin’s ambivalent view of the strongman. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Kremlin.ru In the hours after Belarus shocked the world by forcing a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk and arresting prominent opposition figure Roman Protasevich, officials in Russia — Minsk’s ally and patron — maintained conspicuous ra...

The Atlantic Other Regimes Will Hijack Planes Too If Belarus gets away with it, authoritarian regimes around the world will have a new tool of oppression. 12:25 PM ET Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty / Mindaugas Kulbis / AP Even when our most basic civilizational values are in dispute, there are a few sets of rules and regulations that we nevertheless manage to share. The laws of the sea, for example, or the norms governing the conduct of air-traffic controllers. Pilots of any nationality, even when flying to Caracas, Havana, or Pyongyang, have no reason to believe that the instructions they re...