It’s often very difficult to know what to think about Belarus. In the same week that the country launched a new crackdown on independent media and journalists...
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Belarusian police have raided the offices of independent news outlets in the capital, Minsk, detaining a number of journalists. The authorities claim that the news...
ALSO Holding, a Swiss company that offers services at all levels of the ICT value chain, has announced that it has been contracted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to...
It is Saturday night and I am strolling along Nezalezhnastsy (Independence) Street in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. It is as loud as an area of inner city London might...
Belarus’s leading food retailer Eurotorg has received a 20 million euros loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The retailer will use the...
A number of emerging European countries rank amongst the worst in the world for modern slavery, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index (GSI), published by The Walk...
Advanced economies remain the global leaders in trade logistics, finds Connecting to Compete, a new World Bank Group report. Across the board, most countries have...
Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko has signed a decree allowing foreign tourists to visit Belarus for a maximum period of 30 days without a visa. The visa-free...
Virtual currencies and blockchain technology have a lot of potential. They are not of systemic importance yet, but are rapidly evolving. At this stage of the innovation...
With almost 1.6 million applications in 2017, the twelve countries of emerging Europe whose citizens needed visas to visit the 26 Schengen countries in 2017 accounted...
In a move experts have deemed provocative, Russian President Vladimir Putin has renamed several Russian military units after European locations, including cities in...
Belarus is planning to introduce a visa-free tourist zone between the Grodno and Brest regions and to extend its visa-free travel period to 15 days for those who enter...
