Warsaw
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08 September 2012
Polish Organisations in Belarus - Living under Pressure
On 24 August at a congress of Polish Diaspora in Warsaw Poles from Belarus adopted an open letter. The authors of the letter raised the topic of the serious difficulties that the minority faces in the last dictatorship of Europe.
One of the most sensitive issues includes the use of the Card of the Pole, which five years after its introduction still remains controversial. ...
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17 July 2012
Twenty Years of Uneasy Belarus-Poland Relations
Although trade turnover between Poland and Belarus indicates positive trends, numerous problems remain unsolved. Treatment of Polish minority in Belarus and wide spread human rights violations are just a few of them. Nevertheless, both Poland and Belarus have a few serious reasons to establish positive relations.
Warsaw is driven by prestige and even more so by the geopolitics of...
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26 November 2010
Russia, NATO and Belarus: Real Money and Unreal Threats
For Belarus, an agreement between Russia and NATO will once again underline the problem of being outside this process of pan-European integration. Belarus can... -
02 September 2010
How Much Having an Embassy in Minsk Costs
It is hardly a secret that establishing diplomatic relations with an authoritarian state is a gamble. One never knows what one’s embassy in Minsk may suffer if it crosses swords with the Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
On the night of August 30, two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the compound of the Russian Embassy in Minsk. Three days later, an obscure anarchist...
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14 April 2010
No Official Mourning In Belarus After Death of Kaczyński So Far
Today Belarus is the only country in the region that has not declared a day of national mourning following the death of the Polish president in a plane crash Apr. 10. Lithuania, Ukraine, Czech... -
11 April 2010
Instead of Landing in Minsk, Kaczyński’s Plane Crashed in Smolensk
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18 February 2010
How can Brussels Help the Union of Poles?
Gone is the time when Belarusians were one of... -
12 February 2010
The Union of Poles Mistreated in Belarus
Ethnic Poles rising in western Belarus was what Minsk and Moscow happened to choose as a scenario for their 2009 joint military exercise. As if ashamed of its lack of judgment last year, the Belarusian leadership is now doing everything possible to make such a far-fetched plot more plausible.
On February 8, Belarusian police burst into the Polish House in Ivyanets, owned by the Union of...
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04 February 2010
Repressions against Media in the Wake of Presidential Elections in Belarus
As presidential elections are getting closer, Belarus authorities have stepped up their efforts to silence... -
05 November 2009
Russian-Belarusian exersices made Poland ask for help from US
Poland’s foreign minister called upon the US to deploy its troops on the territory of the country to defend it from military aggression.During a conference in Washington...
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08 October 2009
Belarus May Win from the Change of US Missile Defense Plans
On Sept. 17, to Russia’s satisfaction and to Poland’s chagrin, President Obama announced canceling US plans to build a missile base in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic. The revelation came on the 70th...
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10 December 2008
The National Endownment for Democracy hosts an event on Belarus
The International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and RFE/RL invite you to a briefing:
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