Belarus closed border with Ukraine: Lukashenka accused Kiev of supplying weapons to saboteurs

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko issued a decree to close the border with Ukraine. He explained the decision by the flow of weapons from abroad and an attempt by saboteurs to blow up the station of the Navy. Ukraine denied accusations of supplying weapons. And Lithuania, due to the influx of immigrants from Belarus ...

USA wants to ban the sale of tickets for flights from America to Belarus

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed to ban the sale of tickets for flights between the US and Belarus. Travel Weekly writes about it. This step follows the forced landing by Belarus on May 23 of a Ryanair flight that flew over an Eastern European country en route to Vilnius (Lithuania) ...

Belarus reduces the number of American diplomats and complicates the issuance of visas for US citizens

Belarus imposed sanctions against the United States. According to the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz, this is a response to the fact that earlier the United States and a number of other countries imposed sanctions against Belarus. Novaya Gazeta writes about this. Among the restrictions - ...

Russia refused to let planes flying around Belarus from Europe: flights had to be canceled

Russia expressed its position regarding the air blockade of Belarus, which was imposed by the European Union after a special operation to force a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk. Finanz.Ru writes about this. On Wednesday, AirFrance - Europe's third largest airline by passenger traffic - was forced to reschedule its evening flight...

Belarusians in the USA write to congressmen about the situation at home: how it can help

Belarusians living in the United States encourage each other and all concerned to send messages to American senators and congressmen to tell them about the situation in Belarus and call for action. In the Facebook group “Belarusians of the ZSA. “Razam lie down,” compatriots are calling on you to write letters to senators and...

Who is Roman Protasevich, for whose arrest Belarus intercepted the plane

On May 23, a Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in Minsk. Among its passengers was Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of the Nexta telegram channel, one of the symbols of last year’s protests, writes BBC. On May 5, Roman Protasevich turned 26 years old. On his Twitter profile...

Aircraft interception by Belarus: pilot talks published, Europe stops flights over the country

On May 23, Belarus lifted a fighter jet to land a Ryanair Athens-Vilnius plane in Minsk, which was carrying the former editor of the opposition telegram channel NEXTA Roman Protasevich. Protasevich and his girlfriend were detained. The Aviation Department has published a transcript of the negotiations between the Ryanair pilot and the dispatcher in Minsk ...

Global scandal: Belarus intercepts an international flight and arrested a passenger

The former editor-in-chief of the Nexta telegram channel, which covered protests in Belarus, Roman Protasevich, was detained in Minsk. He was removed from the plane, which was flying from Athens to Vilnius and urgently landed in Minsk after a report of “mining,” writes the BBC. “Roman Protasevich was detained. He…

Supernovae Israelis: Come and Succeed

"Maidan Aliyah" and "Putin's repatriation": these words describe a new phenomenon in the history of modern Israel - a sharp increase in the number of people who left and continue to leave Ukraine and Russia in recent years. Some leave from hostilities in the east of Ukraine and from the fall ...

'Covid followed on his heels': how Belarus visited the USA and other closed countries during the pandemic

Belarus Nikita Smirnov is only 23, but he already has 30 countries behind him, he plans to travel the whole world. And even the pandemic hasn't changed this guy's plans. In 2020, he traveled almost all over Belarus, spent two months in America, visited ...

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