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21.01.2025

Why can’t the ‘all-weather’ friendship between Minsk and the little rocket man work out?

Lukashenka’s attempt to establish relations with North Korea encountered an unexpected problem: Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, said that no invitations to hold a high-level meeting had been sent, thus refuting the statements of the Belarusian politician.

10.12.2021

Details of the peaceful protests in Belarus

The political crisis began in Belarus more than one year ago.

20.09.2021

Migrants as weapons: Lukashenko turns Belarus into a criminal state

Lukashenko’s regime is bringing hundreds of migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries to the borders of the European Union.

26.05.2021

Airplane hijacking over a new gray zone

For a long time, an explanatory matrix worked regarding to Lukashenko: he «maneuvers.» This no longer works.

15.04.2021

BY CHANCE (dystopia of bilateral relations between Belarus and Lithuania)

It could have been a beautiful story about a wonderful neighbourhood between Belarus and Lithuania.

14.04.2021

The case of «rehabilitation of Nazism» in coverage by Belarusian state media

Recently, the Belarusian authorities began to actively employ rhetoric about the «falsification of history and the rehabilitation of Nazism» by Western countries, which has already resulted in criminal prosecution of several Polish minority activists and another Belarusian-Polish diplomatic scandal.

13.04.2021

Slovakia will support training for Belarusian specialists

Within the framework of the SlovakAid Fellowship programme for Change Leaders initiative, Belarusian specialists will become familiar with the Slovak experience of post-communist transformation.

28.09.2020

Changes in (Bela)Rus(s)ian Propaganda: The U.S. and Soros advanced Polish-Lithuanian collusion

The Belarusian and Russian state media agenda on Belarusian events was synchronized within three weeks after the elections, but since then it has been situationally corrected.

21.08.2020

The Kremlin «assistance» operation in Belarus: the other kind of the polite green man are already on the ground

On August 14, 15, and 16 Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin had several phone calls to agree on the format of Russian assistance to handle the situations in Belarus.