World reacts to plane ‘hijacking’ by Belarus

European countries, the United States and the United Nations have condemned Belarus after authorities there forced a passenger plane carrying a wanted journalist to divert and land in its capital.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the thirteenth-largest and the twentieth-most populous country in Europe.

Belarus is a developing country ranking very high in the Human Development Index. It has been a member of the United Nations since its founding and a member of the CIS, the CSTO, the EAEU, and the Non-Aligned Movement.