Journalists are still being detained in Belarus, months after a rigged presidential election. Among the latest to have been arrested is Yulia Slutskaya, founder of the Press Club Belarus. Yulia Slutskaya (pictured above) is a prominent Belarusian...
Tag - Belarus Presidential Election 2020
Is genuine regime change possible in Russia’s sphere of influence? Conventional wisdom suggests that faced with an imminent revolutionary threat, Russia...
Minsk on December 6 was a familiar sight for anyone who has been following events in Belarus since a rigged presidential election was held in August. Widespread...
In 2017, when Belarusian musicians Egor Shkutko, Roman Komogortsev and Pavel Kozlov formed Molchat Doma (Молчат Дома, Russian for Houses Are Silent) they probably didn’t...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
With most of the world focused on the US presidential election and the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the struggle for freedom in Belarus has faded into the...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was until recently the last leading opposition figure in Belarus to be both free and still in the country. Two weeks ago, however, the...
In her most overtly political statement yet, the Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on October 13 that she will call a nationwide strike unless...
Almost two months have now passed since a presidential election in Belarus which the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, claims to have won with over 80 per cent of the...
There were new protests in Belarus on September 23 following the abrupt and unannounced swearing-in of Alexander Lukashenko for a new term in office as the...
More than six weeks on from a rigged presidential election in Belarus, in which Alexander Lukashenko implausibly claims to have won a new term in office with more than...
Alexander Lukashenko, now widely viewed as the illegitimate president of Belarus following a rigged election on August 9 that he almost certainly lost, has long insisted...
