The special services of Belarus and Russia have agreed to jointly fight the “destructive activities of the West.” This decision was made by the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin and the head of the KGB of Belarus Ivan Tertel during today’s meeting in Vitebsk: “The SVR of Russia and the KGB […]
Tag: Lukashenka
Western sanctions against Belarus pushed it into the arms of Russia
Threats of sanctions from the collective West towards Belarus leave Lukashenka no other options except integration with Russia, and no chance to justify himself for the landing of a European plane and the arrest of the Belarusian opposition leader. Through the efforts of the Baltic states and Poland, all decisions on Belarus were made even […]
Putin called the Ryanair situation an emotional explosion
A meeting between Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin took place in Sochi. During the 5-hour summit, the presidents also touched upon the subject of the forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk. At the beginning of the meeting, the Belarusian president said that he had brought documents related to the incident to Vladimir Putin: […]
Reuters: Turkey pushes NATO towards softer reaction towards Belarus
British agency Reuters said Turkey had lobbied NATO for a softening of the bloc’s official reaction to Belarus in the Ryanair hijacking case, citing two informed diplomatic sources. Yesterday on Wednesday, the NATO Alliance issued a two-paragraph statement condemning the incident that led to the arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich. The statement, however, did not […]
The Greek who came out in Minsk: I saw Protasevich, but did not know who he was
“I saw him, but I didn’t know who he was,” Jason Zisis, a passenger from Greece on the Ryanair flight who remained in Minsk, told the Greek newspaper kathimerini.gr. Roman Protasevich… Mr. Zisis stated that he resides in Patra, Greece, and is an engineer in the field of computational mathematics. His wife is Belarusian and […]
Greece: there was no information about the threat to the Ryanair flight
The Greek Civil Aviation Authority has categorically denied reports of a threat on the plane that landed in Minsk, Belarus. “Totally false, non-existent and completely misleading,” the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) describes in a statement the information released from Athens International Airport or the Greek authorities about the existence of any threat on a Ryanair […]
Several conclusions on the “landing” of Protasevich
Here’s what we have to say: let’s share the humanitarian whining about the “poor boy”, whom the “Belarusian gebnya” will certainly torture in dungeons, and the logic of the state. These, as they say in Odessa, are two big differences. In the world of humanism, Roman Protasevich is, of course, the victim. A good and […]
Ryanair emergency landing situation
The heads of the leading factions of the European Parliament call the incident with the emergency landing in Minsk of the plane on the Athens-Vilnius flight “state terrorism.” Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party of the EP, says Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko “endangers civil air travel in Europe” and called it an act […]
Tikhanovskaya met with the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece
On Thursday, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou received the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who informed her about the situation in her country, the ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ agency reports, referring to a statement by the presidential administration. The President of the Greek Republic, during a meeting with the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, expressed […]