Mapping Faultlines: Battles over airspace, geopolitics in Belarus

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent incident in Belarus where a plane carrying dissident and anti-government activist Roman Protasevich was made to land and he was detained

May 28, 2021 by Newsclick

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent incident in Belarus where a plane carrying dissident and anti-government activist Roman Protasevich was made to land and he was detained. Prabir examines the hypocrisy in the response of the West, the controversies around sanctions, and the larger geopolitical issues in the region.