On 23 May 2021 President Lukashenko ordered the Ryanair plane, flying from Athens to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, carrying his Nazi-schooled threatening opponent and activist Protasevich and his girlfriend, to be diverted to Minsk. He did so after having received a message of a bomb threat on board the plane from the Swiss e-mail provider […]
Original in Norwegian on Dr. Bjørn Nistad’s blog. On June 3, Belarusian television showed an interview with opposition activist Roman Protasevich, the 26-year-old who was arrested with his girlfriend in Minsk on May 23 this year after a much-publicized action against a passenger plane on its way from Athens to Vilnius. In the interview, Protasevich […]
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, fought in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus. A high-profile Belarusian regime-change activist whose detention on a forcibly grounded airplane caused an international scandal has extensive links to neo-fascist groups, which his political sponsors in Western capitals have conveniently overlooked. Far-right activist Roman Protasevich was traveling on the Irish airliner Ryanair on May 23 when the plane crossed […]
