![How to Prevent Africanization of Foreign Aid to Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Donors-Conference-in-Warsaw-150x150.jpg)
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President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has an uncanny sense of balance. Elections and gas disputes occasionally threaten his equilibrium with a push to the West or East. But like the best Tai Chi practitioners, Lukashenka has learned that pressure to one...
![Will Lukashenka Outsmart the West Once Again?](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Neklaeu-150x150.jpg)
![Helping Belarus Activists Stay, not Leave](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/unemployment-line-150x150.jpg)
Following the recent presidential elections, many people in Belarus lost their jobs or were expelled from universities. It is important to take measures which would help those people stay...
![EU-Belarus Relations: He who Learns but Does not Think is Lost](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/belarus-21-150x150.jpg)
![Transborder Broadcasting and Oil Revenues as Keys to Belarus Puzzle](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/TV-Tower1-150x150.jpg)
Almost a month after the brutal voting day crackdown in Minsk, repressions against the regime's opponents are not diminishing. Most leaders of the 19 December protests are still in custody...
![Appeal to the Members of the European Parliament by Belarusian Civic Leaders](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/European-parliament-strasbourg-inside-150x150.jpg)
Appeal by representatives of the Belarusian civil society, prepared for the recent session of the European Parliament. APPEAL to the Members of the European Parliament on the Situation in Belarus
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It is encouraging to see a consensus in recent statements by observers and policymakers on Belarus. Nearly all independent commentators agree that sanctions need to be imposed against the regime of Lukashenka. Yesterday’s editorial of FT about Belarus adds...
![Memorandum of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain on Elections](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/marka_zbvb.jpg)
the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain adopted a memorandum in the aftermath of the 2010 presidential elections in Belarus MEMORANDUM by the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain
![Situation with Democracy in Belarus is a Humanitarian Disaster](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/20101021_yorg_t-150x150.jpg)
![€3 Billion for Development of Civil Society in Belarus?](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Buzek-Milinkevich-150x150.jpg)
![Germany in Favor of Sanctions against Belarusian Authorities](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/b45_WesterwelleMinsk.jpg)
Source: nn.by
![Leading Economists of the Belarusian Diaspora Meet in Minsk](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/beroc-2009-150x150.jpg)
Last week, the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) held its second Annual International Economics Conference in Minsk.