Beyond the political sabre-rattling, the situation on the Belarus-Lithuania border exposes the callousness of those involved towards the plight of vulnerable migrants...
Tag - Alexander Lukashenko
A year on from a fraudulent presidential election, two horrifying incidents have this week served to offer a timely reminder of just how far the regime of Alexander...
Human rights groups have condemned a new round of arrests in Belarus targeting civil society organisations. Belarusian authorities carried out a day of massive...
The government of Belarus is becoming increasingly isolated, sealing its borders with Ukraine and Poland while – allegedly – encouraging illegal migration...
Central Europe Proposed legislative changes that would ban non-European ownership of Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc...
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán finds himself some rather unsavoury company on a new list of rogue leaders clamping down on press freedom. Hungarian Prime Minister...
Central Europe Croatia’s tourist industry appears to be recovering after the hammering it took in 2020, with 2.6 million visitors arriving in the country so far...
Russia is currently bailing out Belarus to the tune of 2-3 billion US dollars a year, but will it insist on taking over a chunk of Belarus’s largest state-owned...
Central Europe A far-reaching cyberattack in Poland this month hit over 100 email accounts used by current and former government officials, Polish counter-intelligence...
The European Union has stepped up sanctions against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, targeting in particular exports of oil, tobacco and potash, a key...
Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
Belarus is rewriting history to achieve political goals, and the country’s Polish community is paying the price. World War II is embedded in the mental and...