There are some massively sketchy goings on in Belarus at the moment and it looks like this was carefully planned to capture one of those speaking out about it. Ben of Bald and Bankrupt fame has some really interesting things to say about the country - he loves the place but won't go near after they attempted to coerce him into producing propaganda for them and made some pretty murdery-sounding threats when he refused.
From an aviation standpoint, this can only escalate issues in the region and I wouldn't be surprised to see route deviations/cancellations from airlines that are not overly enthralled about Minsk firing up one of their three working MiGs every time they carry a passenger with an opinion.
A million great ideas...