Former editor of biggest Belarusian Telegram news channel NEXTA Roman Protasevich is strongly suspected of being a security service agent, editor-in-chief of the independent Belarusian news site Charter 97, Natalya Radina, told Radio NV on June 14.
Belarus’s hyper-dependency on multifaceted external factors and the role of the Russo-Ukrainian war in increasing this dependency has been further confirmed by three recent events (see EDM, April 26). First, Roman Protasevich, the former operator of the “NEXTA” Telegram channel, was recently acquitted by Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Headquartered in nearby Poland, NEXTA played a key role in directing post-election …
A Belarusian former dissident journalist, arrested when his Ryanair flight was spectacularly intercepted and convicted this month to eight years in prison, has been pardoned, state media reported Monday.
Raman Pratasevich, formerly an editor of the opposition media group Nexta, was arrested.
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Roman Protasevich was arrested on May 23, 2021, when Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair plane, traveling from Athens to Vilnius, to make an emergency landing in Minsk, citing a bomb threat.