Bloomberg News
@Bloomberg-News·2.8M subscribers·40.1K videos
Why Did Belarus's Lukashenko Take 'Insane' Step of Diverting Ryanair Flight?
Posted
May 24, 2021
Views
3,147
Likes
17
Comments
6
Engagement
May 24, 2021
3,147
17
6
0.73%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:40Now PlayingBelarus has long pursued its president’s critics on the streets, and now it’s turned to the skies. For more than 26 years, President Alexander Lukashenko has maintained his hold on power in the East European country of 9.3 million people, putting thousands of opponents in jail or forcing them abroad.
Riot police and sweeping arrests gradually stamped out large-scale street protests following his disputed election in August 2020 for a sixth term.
In the latest extraordinary move, Belarus forced a passenger jet flying over the country to land and hauled off Raman Pratasevich, a journalist who helped shape the opposition to Lukashenko.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world.
To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app.
Have a story to tell? Fill out this survey for a chance to have it featured on Bloomberg Quicktake
Connect with us on…
Breaking News on YouTube
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
