On Sunday, May 23th 2021, the Belarusian authorities forced a plane of the Ireland-based Ryanair which was traveling on the Athens-Vilnius route to divert its route and land in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, in order to arrest Roman Protasevich, a 26-year-old journalist and exiled dissident who was on board. The plane was flying over Belarus […]
