![125 Cities Across the Globe for a Free Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/sites/default/files/images/JEF_Free_Belarus-150x150.jpg)
![Belarus to Diversify Away From Russian Oil Supplies](https://belarusdigest.com/sites/default/files/images/chavez_lukashenko-150x150.jpg)
A bit of sensational news came today in the morning: starting May, Belarus will daily buy 80,000 barrels of oil from Venezuela. According to media reports, this number is comparable to the current...
![EU Belarus Policy: The Toothless Tiger Stratergy](https://belarusdigest.com/sites/default/files/images/EU_tiger-150x150.jpg)
The European Union looks like as a toothless tiger to Belarus authorities. It is large, makes a lot of noise but can't really do anything. Yesterday the European Parliament adopted yet another...
![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...
![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...
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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...
![Belarus-Russia Oil Dispute: Nothing Personal, Just Business](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Russian-oil-150x150.jpg)
A commentary by one of this website’s authors on the Russian-Belarusian oil duties dispute, for Novaja Eŭropa on-line magazine Let’s admit, Belarusian authorities have no effective arguments in the current...
![Is Ukraine More Repressed than Belarus?](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Belarus_freedom-150x130.png)
According to Heritage Foundation, a US conservative think tank, Belarus has more freedom than Ukraine. Belarus is ranked as 150 out of 179 countries in the Index of Economic...
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Members of the European Parliament agreed to prolong sanctions against Belarus while at the same time postponing their application. A resolution adopted...
Appeasement in our time -- Berlusconi goes to Belarus by Joerg Forbrig BERLIN -- This year has been full of celebrations of the peaceful revolutions of 1989, arguably the most important advance of freedom, democracy, and human rights in history. But...
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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...
![Barely Solvent but Ready to Gamble](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/0000e117-150x150.jpg)
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s playing Moscow against the West is turning a profit in the midst of global economic crisis. Having received $1.5 billion from Russia and $1.5 billion from the International...
![The Wall Street Journal: Europe’s Last Dictatorship](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wsj.gif)