![BBC Interviews Ivonka Survilla – President of Belarusian Government in Exile](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/survilla.jpg)
![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...
![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...
![Diaspora Against Internet Censorship in Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Voice_of_America-logo-E43A2FDB28-seeklogo_com-150x150.gif)
Members of the Belarusian-American Association responded to the new attack of the government of Belarus on the constitutional rights of their citizens by staging a protest in the very center...
![Viktor Yanukovich, an ethnic Belarusian, Elected as President of Ukraine](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Yanuki_Yanukovich-150x150.jpg)
While Belarus itself has been stuck with its authoritarian ruler since 1994, an ethnic Belarusian in neighboring Ukraine has secured the highest position in the country. Father of the newly-elected...
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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...
![Russia’s New Military Doctrine Mentions Belarusian Security](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Russian_mil-150x150.jpg)
On February 5, 2010 President Dmitri Medvedev approved a new Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation. The document replaces the version adopted in 2000 and will serve as...
![President Signed Decree on Regulation of the Internet](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/nn600x400-150x150.jpg)
The Belarusian government’s plans to regulate Internet have finally taken a form: last week president Lukašenka has signed a decree on “measures regarding improvement of the national segment of the...
![Looking Back at Presidential Elections in Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/8b56b259f1f8aa27a0b17aaee99770f6-150x150.jpg)
Next year, Belarusians will vote in the fourth presidential election in their history as an independent nation. Belarus has been led by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994. This blogpost...
![Repressions against Media in the Wake of Presidential Elections in Belarus](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Belsat_Alina_Koushyk-150x150.jpg)
As presidential elections are getting closer, Belarus authorities have stepped up their efforts to silence media not under their control. Over the last few days, the Council of Ministers imposed...
![Belarus in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide](https://belarusdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/greenwood-150x150.jpg)
The chapter on Belarus was included in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide published earlier this year. The three volumes account for more than 1300 pages of important and...
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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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