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Published in: oDR‘Minsk bombers’ executed: the questions that remainSometime between 11-16 March, the two men accused of planting a bomb on the Minsk underground were executed with a...
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Published in: oDRA turbulent twelve months in BelarusThis Monday marked a year since Belarusians staged a peaceful protest (brutally suppressed) against rigged...
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Published in: oDRBelarus on my mind, and maybe on Putin’s tooRecent Russian protests against a stolen election were on the whole peaceful and well-policed. At similar protests...
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Published in: oDRThe freedom fighters of BelarusNext Monday marks the anniversary of Belarus' disgraceful 2010 elections, which led to a brutal campaign of...
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Published in: oDRThe Belarusian Alexander Pushkin: holy fool, dissident performance artist‘Ales’ Pushkin shares his name with Russia’s most famous poet, but is a very different kind of iconic figure. A...
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Published in: oDRBankruptcy and privatisation: the end of Lukashenka’s Belarus?A failed economic model and falling transit subsidies from Russia have propelled the Belarusian economy to the...
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Published in: oDRUkraine, Belarus, Russia — family reunited?Ukraine is busy absorbing the news that opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been arrested under corruption...
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Published in: HomeBelarus: paralysis and reinvention
Belarus is gripped by economic crisis, its people discontented, its government trapped by inertia. The depth of the...
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Published in: oDRSpringtime for Lukashenka?Effective opposition in Belarus has traditionally been limited by a limited sense of nationhood, a deeply controlled...
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Published in: HomeLukashenka - what are the prospects for spring in Belarus?
Europe’s last dictator struggles for his survival. Europe should help the process along by applying targeted sanctions
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Published in: oDRBelarus: the president's dilemmaA dramatic devaluation of the national currency has combined with international isolation to plunge the usually...
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Published in: oDRChernobyl: the first monthTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing that gripped him...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: a European country with a European futureDespite its position out on Europe’s eastern flank, Belarus has historically and culturally been at the heart of...
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Published in: oDRWas that really Daddy on the phone? A woman’s battle with the Belarusian KGBMilana Mikhalevich’s husband was a presidential candidate in Belarus’ disputed election, and is now one of dozens to...
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Published in: oDRBoxing with Lukashenka: why Belarus needs Europe to stay strongIn ten days time, Belarus will hold the first of its post-election political showtrials. The fate of all the...
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Published in: oDRThe EU and Belarus: what next?The bloody postscript to last month’s Belarusian presidential elections has made any strategy of engagement clearly...
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Published in: HomeAlexander Lukashenka’s new test
The Belarusian president’s latest election victory and the violent crackdown after it clarify the national challenge...
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Published in: oDRBringing Belarus in from the Cold
It is said that Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenka never misses an opportunity to surprise partners and foes...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: a most peculiar election (2)On Sunday, Belarus goes to the polls, ending an election cycle that saw all the usual assumptions turned on their...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: a most peculiar election (1)On Sunday, Belarus goes to the polls, ending an election cycle that has seen all the usual assumptions turned on...
