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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by wrinkl3 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:59AM (#27301446)
> RT's current approach seems to be to focus on Protasevich's alleged role as a propagandist for the neo nazi azov brigades in donbass and, of course, the whole Snowden/Morales affair.

They're deflecting because Lukashenko's official narrative (the bomb story) is too absurd even for them to peddle. They can't really say that the plane wasn't hijacked so instead they're falling back to "well he had it coming". This is definitely a new low for the Russia-Western relations, they normally bother with at least some plausible deniability.

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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by dnh44 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:16AM (#27301586)
>This is definitely a new low for the Russia-Western relations

FYI Belarus is a country rather than a region in Russia.

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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by oytis on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:42AM (#27301820)
It's a country with _very_ close relationships to Russia. Up to the point where Russian riot police was participating in suppressing protests in Belarus. If it was not for Russian support Lukashenko would probably have been overthrown in 2020.
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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by cperciva on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:11AM (#27303367)
Sure, and chickens are birds.
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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by pydry on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:48AM (#27301860)
It is a client state of Russia and while Lukashenko might not be a full puppet of Putin, he displays puppet like tendencies.
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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by pydry on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:26AM (#27301674)
They all but admitted that the bomb story was concocted from the beginning.

I don't think that part will change any minds.

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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by stefan_ on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:06AM (#27302010)
Not on RT, they haven't. Pick wisely?
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Re:Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of B... by pydry on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:33AM (#27302241)
No, they absolutely have:

"The Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was compelled to land in Minsk on Sunday while traveling through Belarusian airspace, on the basis of what appears to be a fraudulent claim that a bomb might be on board."

Is what they wrote this morning.

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