Read More 22 minute read Featured War in Donbas Leaked Kremlin emails show Minsk protocol designed as path to Ukraine’s capitulation – Euromaidan Press report Euromaidan Press is releasing the report "Leaked Kremlin emails show Minsk protocol designed as path to Ukraine’s capitulation"… byAlya Shandra
Read More 3 minute read Opinion War in Donbas Vitaliy Portnikov: the Kremlin wants to see Ukraine’s collapse The fact that Ukraine agrees to Russian terms and conditions so that a Zelenskyy-Putin meeting can be organized… byVitaly Portnikov
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Were Babich and Belarusian siloviki preparing a coup? Lukashenka appears to think so Sergey Dorenko, editor of This is Moscow Speaking, says that the Lukashenka regime is engaged in searches and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion When a foreign state buys off officials in another country, it’s more than just bribery Andrey Dynko, a Belarusian commentator, has reminded the world of something many would like to ignore: when a… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion Change of Russian ambassadors won’t slow Moscow’s effort to absorb Belarus, iSANS expert says The replacement of the brash Mikhail Babich by the more diplomatic Dmitry Mezentsev will not bring any fundamental… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read International Opinion Who is behind reports of a coup plot in Belarus? Coups and even more reported coup plots are typically murky affairs with one group suggesting someone is planning… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion Russia’s creeping annexation of Belarus ‘already taking place,’ Juknevičienė says Most people see annexation as something that occurs once and for all at a particular time; but in… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion Secretly-prepared constitutional changes will open way to Anschluss of Belarus by Putin, Matskevich says Vladimir Matskevich, a leading Belarusian thinker and sociologist, says that the Belarusian people must demand the convention of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion It’s not just Babich – Russian embassy in Minsk is a subversive organization Belarusian media have focused on the ways in which Moscow’s ambassador in Minsk, Mikhail Babich, has behaved in… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Belarus already under Russian troll attack designed to give Moscow a base for further aggression Belarus meets all three requirements as a target for a hybrid war and then use it as a… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression When Moscow talks of ‘deep integration’ of Belarus, it means annexation, Lukashenka says Speaking in Minsk today, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says that “under the pretext of ‘deep integration,’” Moscow wants… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Three telling poll results from Belarus Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion Lukashenka tells Putin’s new man in Minsk: ‘Belarus will not ever be part of Russia’ In his extended first meeting with Mikhail Babich, Putin’s new ambassador to Minsk, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Moscow officials currently preparing for Anschluss of Belarus, Larionov says Moscow’s demand that Minsk agree to the opening of a Russian base in Belarus in order to continue… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read International Opinion Putin’s man in Minsk unlikely to achieve Putin’s purposes, Yegorov says Many are worried that Vladimir Putin’s new man in Minsk, Mikhail Babich, the new Russian ambassador and special… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression West’s paramount task is to prevent Belarus from being swallowed up by Russia, Melianas says Imantas Melianas, a senior Lithuanian specialist on ethnic minorities and national security, says that the most important task… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Moscow pursuing ‘forced integration’ of Belarus into Russia now, Sivitsky says Russian actions toward Belarus since 2015 show that Moscow is no longer pursuing the “union deal” it had… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Could Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks on Belarusian border become ‘the little green men’ in Belarus? As relations between Moscow and Minsk deteriorate, the Russian government has moved units of Vladimir Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks into… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion Fearful of Moscow and his own people, Lukashenka fails to crush pro-Russian march in Minsk on Victory Day Despite his heavy-handed approach to any and all demonstrations that he and his regime have not approved in… byPaul A. Goble