Belarus: The Infamous Lukashenko Dictatorship

Lukashenko’s fight against his opponents had been an almost exclusively domestic affair. However, the forced landing of an EU airliner and abduction of a passenger flying from one EU city to another represents a major escalation. Last week in Belarus: Tuesday: the most popular news portal TutBY demolished, its journalists and editor-in-chief detained Friday: Political prisoner Vitold Ashurak died in prison. Officially: a cardiac arrest Sunday: a plane hijacked, Raman Pratasevich arrested.    The conversation between Belarus ATC dispatchers and Ryanair pilots : Dispatcher: We have information that you have a bomb on board that may be detonated over…