The Belarusian Tug Of War
“I have done this for the well-being of my children”, said Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya after she fled from Belarus to avoid the government crackdown and crossed over the border into Lithuania. She was the main...
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The French president believes that OSCE should play a role in Belarus
“We will call upon the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and, together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Council President Charles Michel, we would like to urge Belarus to agree to...
Serbia pressurised by the EU maintains neutrality
In 2017, Belarus, Russia and Serbia held joint military exercises of landing troops close to the Polish border. The choice of time, place and participants were not accidental. It was a response to Montenegro’s...
Alexander Lukashenko: An ambitious dictator who could never flex his arms till yet
The international position of Belarus has been quite an interesting diplomatic exercise in the East European region since 1992. In recent years, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been keeping up his work of making...
Belarus’ struggle for democracy
The Belarus election results has come in favour of the popularly known, ‘Europe’s Last dictator’, President Alexander Lukashenko. The people, however, do not mirror the election results published by the Central Election Commission. The...
Presidential Elections in Belarus: An end to the 26-year-old regime?
As the election date of 9th August for Belarus Presidential elections nears, the tensions in the region is constantly on the rise. President Alexander Lukashenko, an Independent Belarus’ first democratically elected President has been...
Russia-Belarus Integration: Distant Dream of Union State
For more than a year, Russia-Belarus integration has regularly made headlines. In late 2018, Russia suggested that Belarus would have to accept deeper bilateral integration if it wanted to benefit from greater economic cooperation....
Munich or Sochi? A hard choice for the Belarusian President Lukashenka
On February 15-17, 2019, the 55th Munich Security Conference(MSC) brought together more than 600 high-profile decision-makers from all over the world. The key theme of the forum was the future of the international order. The...
