In August 2020, Belarus witnessed its most controversial election yet, leading to widespread protests and international condemnation. Four years on, the landscape...
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President Alexander Lukashenko will almost certainly use his country’s accession to the Eurasian multilateral grouping as a pretext to carry on inundating Poland and the...
Belarusians vote for a new parliament on February 25. There will be very little choice on the ballot papers. Sentenced in 2022 to three years in prison for “slandering”...
Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter. Russia’s war on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that a...
In 1994, the psychological need to maintain ties with Russia pervaded Belarusian society, beset by economic woes after the dissolution of the USSR. Thirty years ago, in...
From the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia and Moldova to the beaches of Albania and the sumptuous dining cars of the Orient Express, these are the ten Emerging Europe...
The economy of Belarus has adjusted to sanctions and the loss of key export markets slightly better than expected. The future, however, is deeply uncertain. ...
Human trafficking is big business and the illegitimate leader of Belarus has more reason than ever to vie for a piece of the action unless he is stopped in his tracks...
Since a fraudulent presidential election and subsequent crackdown on dissent in August 2020, Belarus has become a pariah state. But while its dictator Alexander...
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
The apparent poor health of Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who reappeared in public this week having been taken ill on a recent visit to Moscow, has raised...
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...