Belarusian Monitoring Group suspects Chinese military deliveries to Minsk by Air China cargo jets
The alleged military shipment could end up on the Russian-Ukrainian frontline, surpassing Western sanctions.
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Belarusian army may join Russian invasion of Ukraine in February – Belarusian Journalist
Belarusian troops are highly likely to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2023, the chief editor…
Ukraine warns Lukashenka may join war as Belarus partisans sabotage rail connections
On 20 March 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces declared that Ukraine still faces a high…
How to stop Russian aggression in post-Soviet states? | 30 Years of Freedom, p.4
Moldova Unlike most of Moldova, which was part of Romania in the interwar period, Transnistria was an autonomous…
Belarus crisis may not work out as Putin hopes, Shelin says
Those things are possible but not necessarily going to happen, the Rosbalt commentator says, because there is the…
Qarabagh war outcome opens way for Putin to create ‘post-Soviet space 2.0,’ Dubnov says
The most important outcome of the Qarabagh war was not the defeat of Armenia, the victory of Azerbaijan,…
Why don’t Belarus protesters shun Russia?
With an astonishing 80.23% of votes in the recent Belarusian presidential elections, the incumbent president – Alyaksandr Lukashenka…
The trap of Belarusian economy: between Russian dependence and global uncompetitiveness
Belarusian economy: large public sector and dependence on Russia The public sector employs at least 30% of the…
Belarusian transition more likely to follow Armenian rather than Ukrainian scenario, Lukyanov says
According to Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs and one of the most prominent foreign…
West, Russia face off in Belarus over Baltic–Black Sea waterway project
Plans for a new Baltic–Black Sea waterway, passing through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, have the potential to revolutionize…
Moscow’s hybrid war against Belarus recalls its actions in Ukraine in 2013, Vlantsevich says
Moscow can’t afford the consequences of a direct military invasion of Belarus and doesn’t have sufficient resources to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…