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Publications and Expert Columns on Belarus and Eastern Europe

This section features publications, expert columns, and analytical materials by iSANS for the media, covering events and trends in Belarus, Central and Eastern Europe. If you’re looking for expert commentary, analysis, or fresh insights into the situation in Belarus or Eastern European countries, contact us at info@isans.org or via the contact form on our website.

29.01.2025

Lukashenko Is Proud to be a Dictator. Sunday’s election in Belarus proves what we already knew.

Lukashenko Is Proud to be a Dictator. Sunday's election in Belarus proves what we already knew.

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.

05.08.2024

Pay Attention to Belarus

"Pay Attention to Belarus" by Vlad Kobets and David Kramer was originally published on Just Security.

18.01.2024

iSANS: Belarusian armed forces are being integrated into Russia’s army

A number of Belarusian servicemen have departed for Russia in order to study the experience of Russians’ fighting against Ukraine.

29.11.2023

‘This is the result of Western inconsistency’ — iSANS expert about migrants at Russia-Finland border

More recently, migrants who do not have any documents giving the right to enter the EU have appeared on the Russian-Finnish border.

08.11.2023

Vlad Kobets: Lukashenka has nothing to offer the West

During his recent visit to Astravets Lukashenka admitted his being positive about the feasibility of restoring normal relations with neighbouring countries.

02.11.2023

A new wave of criminal acts committed by the Lukashenka regime: A report on how this type of torture may be accountable to the Hague Tribunal

The crime of enforced disappearance – detention in complete isolation, or incommunicado, and preventing all communications over many months – combined with other forms of torture and persecution, is systematically committed by the Belarusian regime against hundreds, if not thousands of people, including the Polish journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut.

02.10.2023

Ambassador will not be sent to Belarus, says expert on Slovakian elections

The Smer (SSD, Smer – slovenska sociálna demokracia; Direction - Social Democracy) party of former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has won the parliamentary elections.

19.09.2023

Expert: Swiss court will not limit itself to only clarifying Harauski’s role in disappearance of Lukashenka’s opponents

The first day of the trial of Yury Harauski [Yuri Garavsky], who was allegedly involved in kidnappings and assassinations of Belarusian opposition politicians in 1999, is over in the Swiss town of St.

12.07.2023

Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia: an object of Russian aggression and propaganda

In 2022, many European states, including Slovakia, faced a new wave of refugees caused by Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.

10.07.2023

Russian-Ukrainian War: 500 days of challenges and changes

500 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian War allow not only to analyze the course of hostilities but also to determine the tendencies in the development of the situation in the world.

28.06.2023

How they shut down pro-russian media rubbish in Slovakia

Waves of Russian online disinformation began to roll over Slovakia in 2014, following the Kyiv Euromaidan, the annexation of Crimea, and the separatist revolt in the Donbas inspired and supported by the Kremlin’s KGB-mafia regime.