![To Engage or Not to Engage: The Policy Dilemma of Dealing with Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/german_marsh.gif)
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Belarus, a small post-Soviet state once hardly distinguishable from Russia and chronically misspelled in the Western press, has been making more and more headlines lately. And if the Russian-Belarusian military exercises with deployment of Russia’s most advanced S-400 air...
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The International Monetary Fund completed its review of Belarus’s economic policies and approved another financial aid package to Belarus. This time it amounts to US$688 Million. The IMF noticed some improvements in the legal and institutional frameworks for privatization...
![Financial Times: Soviet model may face trouble despite weathering the crisis](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/go-with-belarus-202x300.jpg)
The Financial Times have this week published several stories on Belarus by its Eastern European corespondent Jan Cienski. Both of them seem rather to be stating the obvious but are very useful to get a snapshot impression of the...
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An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission competed its third review of the country’s Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) in Minsk on Nov. 10-19. The mission scrutinized the implementation of the economic program tied to IMF’s loan to Belarus. Chief of IMF mission...
![Financial Times: Behemoths in Belarus Belie Stalling Economy](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/belaz-75600-150x150.jpg)
London's Financial Times published another piece on Belarus economy. About a year ago the leading European business newspaper released a special supplement devoted to promotion...
![Google Translate: Belarusian Language](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/google_translate.gif)
The US Internet giant Google now offers a free translation service from and into Belarusian. If you come across a text in Belarusian language and would like to translate it...
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WASHINGTON – Having concluded another round of consultations with Belarus authorities, the International Monetary Fund urges the Government to sell state assets, curb lending and raise...
![Looking for ‘happiness on a different part of the planet’](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lk-150x150.jpg)
“o one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century on its own,” acknowledged the president of the United States Barack Obama in his speech to Chinese officials today. Uncharacteristically,...
![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...
![New York Times: Russia’s Neighbors Resist Wooing and Bullying](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nytlogo153x23.gif)
![Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenka, left, welcoming a group of U.S. congressmen in Minsk on Tuesday. Photo by Nikolai Petrov / Belta.](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/4_24-180x120.jpg)
Detaining American citizens to hand them over...
![IMF to lend Belarus an additional $1 billion](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/imf-logo.gif)
Apparently, the IMF mission to Belarus was satisfied with the efforts the country is making to tackle its worst economic crises since early 1990-s. The fund agreed...
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The United States chargé d’affaires in Belarus Jonathan Moore recently gave an interview to Charter97. Below is the full text of the interview: - Mr. Moore, an...
![Eurasia Daily Monitor on Economic Crises in Belarus](https://www.belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jamestown.jpg)
WASHINGTON - Eurasia Daily Monitor has published an article about the impact of economic crises on Belarus and whom Belarusians tend to blame for the crises: Economic Problems Beset Belarus March 13,...