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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia Blocks Flights That BYPASS Belarus Following Journalist's Arrest
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Russia has blocked flights from other countries that avoid Belarusian airspace while traveling to Russia after the Belarusian government forced a plane to land and then arrested a prominent opposition journalist.
Journalist Raman Pratasevich was arrested Sunday after Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko ordered a fighter jet to intercept the 123-person passenger plane Pratasevich was traveling on. The government forced it to land in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, where Pratasevich and his girlfriend were taken into custody.
Belarusian authorities claimed a bomb threat had been made about the plane, forcing its landing, but officials found no explosives.
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But as the U.S. and European countries have made promises not to travel into Belarusian airspace, Russia ― a key ally of Belarus ― has started denying entry to its own country if flights have avoided Belarus to get there. On Wednesday, Air France cancelled multiple Paris-Moscow flights after Russia declined to approve new routes that would have bypassed Belarus. Austrian Airlines also had at least two flights cancelled after Russia denied it entry over an updated flight plan that would have skipped Belarus.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-blocks-flights-that-bypass-belarus-pratasevich_n_60b0fb8fe4b06da8bd760ac3
I guess Belarus is acting as Putin's muscle by proxy.
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Russia Blocks Flights That BYPASS Belarus Following Journalist's Arrest (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
May 2021
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2naSalit
(86,622 posts)1. So start boycotting Russia.
HAB911
(8,892 posts)2. Produce gun, shoot foot
Isolate them
RainCaster
(10,877 posts)3. A rather dumbass move IMO
Putin is missing the bigger picture- Russia needs the world's money to survive.
JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)4. Why is Biden legitimizing this asshole by
meeting with him? I hope he does something to make Putin look stupid.
poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)5. Putin is such a jackass! Fine -- boycott flights to Russia!
F**k 'em!