Posts Tagged
re-Sovietization

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  2018/05/19 - 13:03 • Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Russia

  Are Russian oligarchs serving as Putin’s ‘little green men’ in Belarus?

  In the wake of the political changes in Yerevan, Belarusian analysts are saying that Moscow would not react as calmly to similar changes in Minsk because unlike Armenia, which is constrained by its geography, Minsk could in fact change...

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  2018/05/11 - 12:41 • Analysis & Opinion, Belarus

  Fearful of Moscow and his own people, Lukashenka fails to crush pro-Russian...

  Despite his heavy-handed approach to any and all demonstrations that he and his regime have not approved in advance, Alyaksandr Lukashenka did not order the dispersal of 1500 Belarusians who marched through the center of Minsk with...

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  2018/04/08 - 19:30 • Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Russia

  Putin planning to interfere in Belarusian elections to replace Lukashenka, Sivitsky says

  Russians already now are “considering scenarios of a so-called ‘transit of power’ in Belarus” in the parliamentary and presidential elections slated for 2019 and 2020 and “will try to interfere … in order to bring to power...

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  2017/09/23 - 05:49 • Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Russia

  Struggle for Belarus: Minsk is promoting Belarusianization; Moscow, re-Sovietization

  Minsk is promoting the Belarusianization of Belarus while Moscow is pushing its re-Sovietization. But because both are being imposed from above, specialists on that country say, it is unclear whether the former will promote cultural...

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