In an interview with Le Temps, Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya says that at present, the Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” and cannot withstand the force being used by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka but will recover its...
At the end of last year, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (June 2014–May 2019) announced in an interview that, back in 2018, he had initiated a special operation to detain mercenaries belonging to the notorious Russian private...
Since gaining its independence in 1991, Ukraine keeps trying to revive the Ukrainian language in all areas of life after centuries of Russification. Prior to 1918, most of Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire which had only one official...
“Remember, I said a year ago … that perhaps a time will come when Russian President Vladimir Putin and I will have to stand next to each other and shoot back. And you took it for a joke. But you now see how life has turned around,”...
The wiretapped recording from 2012 contains the voice attributed to the then-head of the Belarusian KGB Vadym Zaitsev, who discusses planned assassinations of critics of Lukashenka’s regime with officers from the elite Alpha KGB...
The most important outcome of the Qarabagh war was not the defeat of Armenia, the victory of Azerbaijan, the expansion of Turkish influence in the Caucasus or the demonstration of the role of drones in all future wars, Arkady Dubnov says....
Since Pavel Sheremet was murdered in July 2016 in Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators had a difficult time figuring out the motive. Nothing seemed to fit: the Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist hadn’t authored any hard-hitting investigation...
In Belarus, protests against widespread election fraud are into their fifth month. Peaceful protesters have shown remarkable resilience in the face of police brutality. In the last month, the protests have taken a turn for the worse: the...
Before the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus, observers could not anticipate the massive mobilization against the long-lasting authoritarian ruler. It was believed that Lukashenko will duly win yet another campaign under the usual...
With an astonishing 80.23% of votes in the recent Belarusian presidential elections, the incumbent president – Alyaksandr Lukashenka – has once again secured a landslide victory over his opposition. His sixth consecutive victory,...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the Vienna-based...
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