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Europe’s Belarus Policy: The Need to Go Beyond Sanctions
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The last week’s decision to go on with the Eastern Partnership’s EURONEST parliamentary assembly without Belarus again highlighted disagreements in the EU about how to deal with the deviant Eastern neighbour. The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is the parliamentary component...
7 February 2011
How to Prevent Africanization of Foreign Aid to Belarus
How to Prevent Africanization of Foreign Aid to Belarus

As the Belarus civil society receives pledges of financial support from international community, the issue of how to...

2 February 2011
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How Long before Business as Usual: Tai Chi à la Lukashenka

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...

31 January 2011
Will Lukashenka Outsmart the West Once Again?
Will Lukashenka Outsmart the West Once Again?

28 January 2011
Helping Belarus Activists Stay, not Leave
Helping Belarus Activists Stay, not Leave

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...

25 January 2011
EU-Belarus Relations: He who Learns but Does not Think is Lost
EU-Belarus Relations: He who Learns but Does not Think is Lost

21 January 2011
Transborder Broadcasting and Oil Revenues as Keys to Belarus Puzzle
Transborder Broadcasting and Oil Revenues as Keys to Belarus Puzzle

17 January 2011
Lukashenka Backed Himself Into a Corner
Lukashenka Backed Himself Into a Corner

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...

14 January 2011
Appeal to the Members of the European Parliament by Belarusian Civic Leaders
Appeal to the Members of the European Parliament by Belarusian Civic Leaders

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

14 January 2011
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Financial Times: Dictator Non Grata

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...

14 January 2011
Memorandum of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain on Elections
Memorandum of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain on Elections

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

13 January 2011
Situation with Democracy in Belarus is a Humanitarian Disaster
Situation with Democracy in Belarus is a Humanitarian Disaster

12 January 2011
€3 Billion for Development of Civil Society in Belarus?
€3 Billion for Development of Civil Society in Belarus?

7 January 2011
Germany in Favor of Sanctions against Belarusian Authorities
Germany in Favor of Sanctions against Belarusian Authorities

6 January 2011
19 December 2010: The Election Day Atmosphere in Minsk
19 December 2010: The Election Day Atmosphere in Minsk

  Source: nn.by