Lillian Posner
Security, Eurasia
Any long-term solution for Minsk will require it to strike an equilibrium with Russia and its other neighboring countries.
The coronavirus has taken many forms and mutations, but perhaps the worst is its use as a...
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Exiled opposition leaders call for international support in their fight for democracy.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Associated Press
On Monday, the EUobserver news site published an audio file of a 2012 conversation in which the then-leader of the Belarus KGB could be heard planning dissidents' assassinations in...
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The regime in Minsk has run out of carrots, and has only sticks left.“Past the expiry date, 1994-2020″ reads this placard at a protest in Minsk, August 2020. Lukashenka became President of Belarus in 1994. Photo CC BY-NC 2.0: Natallia...
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Groups of people took part in small rallies scattered around Minsk.
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A wave of COVID-19 has engulfed prisons in Belarus that are packed with people in custody for demonstrating against the nation's authoritarian president, and some of the protesters who contracted the coronavirus while incarcerated accuse authorities...
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The U.S. departments of Treasury and State on Wednesday announced sanctions and visa restrictions on dozens of Belarusian citizens and several entities for their alleged roles in what the U.S. calls a fraudulent Aug. 9 election and the violent...
Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan and Belarus not expected to affect the outcome of January 10 polls.
Political turbulence elsewhere in the region is unlikely to be replicated in Kazakstan’s upcoming parliamentary elections, according to analysts at an...
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Simple. Known. Own. The new identity of an old flag.Minsk's industrial suburbs united, with their own white-red-white flags: Altayskaya, Anharskaya, Sokal, Partyzanski district and Shabany. The latter is the most stigmatised district of the...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Belarus has become the first foreign country to register Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said Monday.
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A Belarusian human rights group says security forces have detained dozens of people during protests calling on strongman Alexander Lukashenko to step down.
The Vyasna rights group said on December 20 that at least 42 people had been detained in...
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MINSK (Sputnik) - Security forces have dispersed anti-government demonstrations in the Belarusian capital on Sunday, with the Minsk police confirming to Sputnik multiple detentions.
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How Belarus Exposes The Lockdown Lie
Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/20/2020 - 07:00
Overall, the Belarussian approach has been the least authoritarian in Europe...
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other leaders of the country's democratic opposition were awarded the European Parliament's 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in a ceremony on December 16 in...
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VIENNA (Sputnik) - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France and the United States), after their visits to Baku and Yerevan, reaffirmed their commitment to constructive cooperation with the sides on Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, the...
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Security forces in Belarus have detained dozens of people as opposition demonstrators staged scattered marches and rallies in Minsk and other cities to pressure strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko to make political concessions. Human rights...
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“Every country has its own path to democracy,” the leader of democratic Belarus says. “And this is ours.”
Join Global Voices on December 14 at 3pm UTC/GMT for the first in our GV Insights series of virtual conversations: “Belarus 2020: Still Uploading?”—a lively discussion on the 2020 Belarusian revolution with experts from Belarus and the...
Belarus’ national protest movement is also hyper-localMinsk's industrial suburbs united, with their own white-red-white flags: Altajskaja, Anharskaja, Sokal, Partyzanski district and Šabany. The latter is the most stigmatised district of...
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The Belarusian president has expressed approval for major changes to the country’s political system, including changes to the constitution, in the wake of the 9 August election, which saw him reelected for a sixth consecutive term in office, but...