Articles

27.02.2020

iSANS Unveils Interactive Map of Toxic Public Groups and Pages, Targeting Belarus

iSANS presents results of research of anti-Belarusian public groups and pages in the Belarusian section of the largest Russia-based social network Vkontakte https://isans.org/toxic.

19.12.2019

Re-Building of the Empire: Behind the Facade of Russia-Belarus Union State

This report focuses on the actions of the Russian state machine, as well as individual actors, in Russia and Belarus, which can be considered a revival of a Russian nationalist imperial ideology.

18.12.2019

Why Belarus needs an online space of its own

The recent iSANS report Coercion to “Integration”: Russia's Creeping Assault on the Sovereignty of Belarus has uncovered a whole Kremlin malign influence network in and around Belarus, aimed at brainwashing its citizens into loyal “Russian world” members.

06.12.2019

‘Europe’s Last Dictator’ Walks Fine Line Between Russia and the West

While Ukraine is in the spotlight because of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump, a recent report suggests Ukraine’s neighbor Belarus should be receiving more attention from the U.S.

31.10.2019

Michael Carpenter: I think Lukashenka is in the process of realizing his mistakes

Former Deputy to an Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Carpenter believes that the attempt to force Belarus to make a choice between East and West is doomed to failure, and the only way to preserve the country's independence is to reform it.

13.07.2019

Time to pay attention to Belarus

Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko last month opened the second European Games, four years after the inaugural session hosted by Azerbaijan.

27.06.2019

Russia’s creeping assault on the sovereignty of Belarus

iSANS decided to publish a brief version of its report Coercion to “Integration”: Russia's Creeping Assault on the Sovereignty of Belarus - Likely Scenario of a Takeover, Channels of Influence and the Main Actors.

30.05.2019

Free Belarus. Coercion to «Integration»: Russia’s Creeping Assault on the Sovereignty of Belarus

Today, no one will be surprised by the information about the interference of Russian forces in the governmental policies of neighbouring countries.

08.05.2019

Belarus Adopts Information Security Concept Amid Growing Propaganda Pressure From Russia

Belarus adopted a new Information Security Concept (ISC) on March 18, 2019, based on a resolution from the Belarus Security Council (President.gov.by, March 18).

01.05.2019

Putin’s Unacknowledged Weakness: Russia’s Foreign Policy Response to the End of the Cold War

The news that Russia is providing passports to residents of Ukraine’s two breakaway regions in the Donbas region came at an inopportune moment for the Ukrainian leadership.

18.04.2019

Anti-Belarusian Propaganda Has Grown Multi-fold, the iSANS Expert Says in His New Study

The study, which is based upon regular monitoring and analysis, shows that there have been significant changes for the worse in both quantitative and qualitative terms in Russia-backed anti-Belarusian propaganda in the past two years, namely:The number of online resources which regularly publish items related to Belarus and contain disinformation, propaganda narratives and hate speech has increased severalfold (to about 40 fairly active sites); Over the past two years, several new active outlets of disinformation and hate speech which are entirely devoted to events in Belarus have appeared online.

14.04.2019

#Infodemic Chronicles

In times of humanitarian disaster, even implacable geopolitical opponents help each other in their efforts to save human lives.