![National Symbols in Belarus: the Past and Present](https://belarusdigest.com/sites/default/files/images/belarus_flag.jpg)
![Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre Decision](https://belarusdigest.com/sites/default/files/images/stalin2-150x150.jpg)
On this day 70 years ago, on March 5, 1940, the politburo of the Communist Party of the USSR has passed the decision to kill several thousands officers of the Polish army. The...
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The council of the Polish city of Kraków has declared Aliaksandr Lukašenka, the President of Belarus, persona non grata in the city. It is a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the Union of Poles in Belarus. The city council...
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In his newest blog entry Pavol Demeš of the Central and Eastern Europe program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States compares the last European dictator with tough chess player who frequently uses forbidden moves to win....
![Avigdor Lieberman’s Murky Dealings in Belarus Unveiled](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Liberman_Lukashenka-150x150.jpg)
A loud scandal involving the foreign Minister of Israel and money laundering via Belarusian banks is unfolding. Ze’ev Ben-Aryeh, the former Ambassador of Israel to Belarus, provided Avigdor Lieberman, the...
![Where the West and Russia Clash](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Beached_Belarus_VC.jpg)
![Opposition May Be the Only Party to Represent Belarus in EURONEST PA](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/jerzy_buzek-150x150.jpg)
An attempt to influence the Belarusian regime through the Eastern Partnership has failed. At least so far, at least the first attempt of it. Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that...
![Belarus Potash and Democracy](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/roubles-724-150x140.jpg)
Stay off the potash is the title of Edward Lucas’s recent article in the Economist, where he reflects on effectiveness of trade boycotts. Although the...
![BBC Interviews Ivonka Survilla – President of Belarusian Government in Exile](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/survilla.jpg)
BBC features Ivonka Survila, the President of the Council (Rada) of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in a special broadcast on governments in exile. According to the...
![Belarus Talks to Rothschild to Put Something Big on its Privatization Plate](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Rothschild-150x150.jpg)
For those who are still not sure about Belarus privatization plans, there is another sign that the Government is serious about it. Moscow Times reports that President Lukashenka invited the...
![Belarusian Ideologist Makes PR for a Concert of Rammstein](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cherginets_rammstein-150x150.jpg)
A senior ideologist Mikalaj Čarhiniec, who had proposed to impose censorship restrictions on a concert of the German industrial rock band Rammstein, has demonstrated what the ideology of the...
![Olympian tourists: From Minsk, with love](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/vancsun-150x150.jpg)
The Vancouver Sun publishes an interview with four Belarusian fans at the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a great pleasure to see the guys wearing sweaters with the historical Belarusian coat...
![Travel Safe, Belarusian Student](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ne1mhtqdrjwghj2wtx7i7rd81u0vpq-pre-150x150.jpg)
Despite having one of the highest student ratios in Europe, a virtually free higher education, and laws making study abroad difficult, the best and brightest young Belarusians continue flocking...
![How can Brussels Help the Union of Poles?](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/9ed19685f6bf899ae7c4f8aa66a9f722a8e915a1-150x150.jpg)
Gone is the time when Belarusians were one of the smaller ethnic groups in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And it is clear that the decades of Soviet rule made Belarus...
![Belarus Police Arrests Polish Activists Unloyal to the Regime](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Polish_Crackdown-150x150.jpg)
Tensions between Belarus and Poland rise as Belarus police arrested about 40 members of a Polish ethnic group. This is a continuation of increased pressure put against the...