There were more protests in Belarus on August 12, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets of towns and cities across the country to demand the resignation...
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State repression in Belarus against peaceful protesters calling for a recount of a rigged presidential election is already taking a severe toll on the country’s...
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (pictured above) was forced to leave the country on August 10, as part of deal with authorities to free her campaign...
Belarus is in limbo and set for a wave of nationwide protests following a presidential election which the country’s opposition claims was heavily rigged. The...
Spotify, one of the largest and most popular music streaming services in the world, is finally available across all of emerging Europe. With the recent addition of...
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...
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...
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...
The coronavirus pandemic will push fiscal financing needs in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Black Sea region to record high levels in 2020, according...
One of Georgia’s two largest banks, TBC, last month announced plans to open a subsidiary – JSCB TBC Bank – in Uzbekistan. The announcement comes as TBC...
