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2017/03/16 - 07:33 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics
Russian agents in the Belarusian security services along with Russian agents in the blogosphere are calling on Alyaksandr Lukashenka not to make any concessions to the protesters but rather to crack down hard as he did in 2010, according...
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2017/03/11 - 11:12 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics, Russia
Russian propaganda outlets are employing exactly the same thematics they did before Moscow intervened in Ukraine, insisting that Belarusians are being led by anti-Russian nationalists who represent the only game in town even though they...
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2017/02/22 - 14:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics, Russia
Because the money is running out and because Russia can no longer make up the difference, Alyaksandr Lukashenka faces a situation he neither expected nor knows how to respond to, one in which not the nationalists but his own electorate has...
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2017/02/19 - 14:12 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Military analysis, Russia
In the course of an interview with Kyiv’s Apostrophe portal, Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov says that “Belarus is candidate number one for a Russian invasion,” a conclusion that takes on added weight given that the Kremlin is...
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2017/02/14 - 10:32 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The Internet can mobilize people around issues and this mobilization often takes the form of presenting declarations to foreign leaders or gathering signatures on petitions that allow those who are sometimes ignored to force themselves...
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2017/02/12 - 20:18 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus
The Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan reported on Facebook that he had been detained in the Republic of Belarus. One of the most famous writers in Ukraine, and one of the most significant in Europe, was detained by law enforcement in a...
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2017/02/07 - 22:20 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Military analysis, Politics, Russia
Two experts at the Minsk Center for Strategic and International Research say that Vladimir Putin may use the current policy disarray in Washington to launch an attack on Belarus, one that could range of a “hybrid” one to the open use...
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2017/02/07 - 15:00 •
Belarus, News
Information attacks from Russia in light of tension in Russo-Belarusian relations have demonstrated Minsk’s inability to counteract them efficiently. Belarus’ costly propaganda machine was unable to act without a clear guidance from...
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2016/12/26 - 08:29 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Military analysis, Russia
Beginning in November, the Eurasian States in Transition (EAST) Center in Warsaw says, Moscow media sharply increased the number of stories in which treat Belarus negatively, question its independence, and suggest that it is moving along...
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2016/11/15 - 05:24 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Military analysis, Russia
Even though Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government would likely be opposed, Vladimir Putin has sufficient leverage over Belarus to use it as a place des armes in the event of a new Russian invasion of Ukraine or of war with NATO, according...
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