Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
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Even if the Moscow Bolshoi is the more famous, its sibling in Minsk is surely more magnificent and robust. The agenda for September is proof of that: seven operas and...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long been dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”. The epithet is not entirely true, not least as Vladimir Putin in...
Belarus first held a presidential election 26 years ago. Since then, an entire generation of Belarusians has grown up knowing just one president, reading schoolbooks...
A forthcoming presidential election in Belarus, scheduled for August 9, looks set to be the liveliest since the country secured its independence from the Soviet Union in...
People in Belarus are voting with their feet and staying at home in order to mitigate the further spread of Covid-19. The country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has...
Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to clamp down on opposition, according to a new report from Amnesty...
We can in all reasonableness expect a vaccine against Covid-19 to go into general production by the end of this year, perhaps far sooner. What we can never alas expect...
The number of coronavirus infections and deaths remains relatively low throughout emerging Europe in comparison with most western European countries, and two, Czechia...
Recent news that Covid-19’s mass cancellation of sports fixtures has led gambling companies to offer bets on some of the only soccer matches still being played (in...
On paper at least, emerging Europe has not yet been as badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic as Western Europe. Both the number of infections, as well as the number...
Has there ever before been so much interest in the Belarus Premier League? Almost certainly not. Across the world, football has been one of the most high-profile...
