Why Roman Protasevich became a government target

Franak Viačorka and journalist Anne Applebaum tell CNN's Bianna Golodryga about the Belarusian activist Roman Protasevich and why he became a Belarusian government target.

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  1. I was thrown out of an antique shop because I walked in and said, “Good afternoon, what’s new?”

    1. Ann sweetheart,
      Here’s a tip, next time you make flybys over nations you criticize, ensure to format your laptop prior to boarding your flight🤦. Hopefully it won’t be retrievable 🙈. I think it’s c:format, isn’t it?🤔

  2. Nobody stops Putin. He has been re-elected and he was the only one running as a candidate! Yikes! (At least… we have a two party system in America! Holy smokes! )’Poor Belarus tonight! I hope the EU sanctions the hell outa this dictatorship! Otherwise, what else is there?

    1. There was a potential candidate… idk if you heard of aleksei navalnij, but putin also arrested him

  3. The detained Protasevich called for a violent seizure of power in Belarus.He published the personal data of police officers and called to deal not only with them but also with their children.He also fought in the Nazi Azov battalion in Ukraine.

    1. @Nicole sweety,
      Here’s a tip, next time you make flybys over nations you criticize, ensure to format your laptop prior to boarding your flight🤦. Hopefully it won’t be retrievable 🙈. I think it’s c:format, isn’t it?🤔

    2. @Nicole Werwie Any person who reports the wrong information that is given by the Western media is declared a troll.

    3. @Caring SharingThe president of Belarus is not perfect, but why is there no claim to those presidents who betrayed their peoples and subordinated the interests of their peoples to the interests of the United States?Ukrainian President Zelensky does terrible things, but the Western media does not notice it.I know the situation from the inside because my grandmother is from Ukraine

    4. Nothing wrong with Azov battalion . they will never forget what ppl like Lazar kaganovich did . BTW he was Jew . usa pro Zionism can get fucked too

  4. The pro-American president of Ukraine Zelensky does much more terrible things than the Belarusian one .But no Western media will say that.Because Ukraine is actually led by the United States,

    1. James Bond would have easily evaded being tricked. That reporter is more like Tintin, a bit naive.😹

  5. In 2016, Ukraine deployed a plane from Belarus, threatening to shoot it down. Special services of Ukraine wanted to rob a flash card of one of the passengers (a citizen of Armenia). Then everyone was silent. Now why was the screeching raised ?!

    1. Roman Protasevich is a CIA asset. He isnt a journalist he is a agent. Part of the CIA sponsored far-right group known as the Pahonia Detachment.

      The US declared no such outrage when in a remarkably similar incident in 2016, the Ukrainian authorities forced a Belarusian Belavia airliner to land in Kiev and arrested one of the passengers, the Armenian “journalist, blogger, and anti-Maidan activist” Armen Martirosyan.

      The US applauded when the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Austria, in the mistaken hope of finding American whistleblower Edward Snowden on board, back in 2013.

    2. @max smart Yes, you can do anything in this world, for example, dismember a journalist at the embassy, but this must be democratic and with the permission of the United States.

    3. @max smart — oh, really? Do you have proof of this, Boris? “Max Smart” is the kind of name a Russian thinks Americans have. It’s like if I called myself Борис Человек.

    4. @Demeter !
      His own Facebook page his own statements his own history as told by him.
      So yes really.

    5. @Demeter !
      The Belarusian government followed Roman Protasevich outside of Belarus and filmed his every meeting. His previous job for the CIA was as Press Secretary for Ukraines Azov Regiment in Ukraine.

      The Special Operations Detachment “Azov”, often known as Azov Battalion, Azov Regiment, or Azov Detachment, is a neo-Nazi Ukrainian National Guard regiment, based in Mariupol in the Azov Sea coastal region. Armed by the US CIA.

  6. That’s not knew really though, is it? It’s just using economics as a way to hold up Russia’s Iron Curtain. America should be offering to prop up Belarus’s economy and democracy? To stop the spread of the New Soviets in Russia.

  7. You claim to be for the people ! Okay,…..So what happened to the virologist that escaped the Wuhan Labs, that is now living in America ? Is she still alive ?

  8. US should think a bit more before taking irresponsible actions next time. It makes me laugh to see how easily Putin can play the West, using their own actions against them. I’ll tell you exactly what the response to hijacking accusations will be: they’ll bring up Snowden, Assange and what happened to Evo Morales’ plane a couple of years back. Putin’s been using one and the same method to play with Western minds for years now, yet nobody’s learnt from it yet. Hats off, Mr. Putin. Seriously… A top player.

  9. “Previously unknown heart condition” is a common ailment for dissidents in authoritarian regimes, but it’s usually discovered by government conducted autopsies.

    1. Roman Protasevich is a CIA asset. He isnt a journalist he is a agent. Part of the CIA sponsored far-right group known as the Pahonia Detachment.

      The US declared no such outrage when in a remarkably similar incident in 2016, the Ukrainian authorities forced a Belarusian Belavia airliner to land in Kiev and arrested one of the passengers, the Armenian “journalist, blogger, and anti-Maidan activist” Armen Martirosyan.

      The US applauded when the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Austria, in the mistaken hope of finding American whistleblower Edward Snowden on board, back in 2013.

  10. So, he was a member of a group trying to oust Lukashenko. No wonder Lukashenko is pissed off at him. Like Adnam Kashoggi.

  11. He’s in the hospital waiting for the seals, go get him. Hate to think what they did to his girlfriend.

  12. Why doesn’t CNN talk about Julian Assange? He is way more important for the Truth and the world of Journalism then this Kid. Why CNN? Why are you so quite?

    1. How can we take you seriously? I Googled “cnn julian assange” and a trove of videos popped up. Further, if you think Assange is some truth seeker you may think the same about Snowden, Qanon Roger Stone etc etc etc.

    2. @Joga Bonito Well I don’t know about Roger Stone but Snowden is a truth teller and a hero. The fact that these people exist to expose the wrong doing of government is a shame. Governments should be honest and tell the truth to Public but they don’t. So anyone who exposed the Governments when they break the laws or Lie are heroes.

  13. 6:02: Transnational oppression: So, the rest of the world has latched on to and copied what the US has been doing since decades.

  14. ПУТИН ЛУЧШИЙ В МИРЕ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ И РОССИЯ САМАЯ ВЕЛИКАЯ СВОБОДНАЯ И БОЛЬШАЯ ОСТАВТИ РОССИЮ И НАШИХ БРАТЬЕВ В ПОКОЕ А ТО СВОЙ ЯД БУДИТЕ ГЛАТАТЬ МЫ ВАМ УСТРОИМ ВОЕВАТЬ МЫ УМЕЕМ

  15. LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 they took a page from the CIA and Mossad book on this one, nice one Belarus!

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