For Belarus, Moscow reanimates themes used to justify aggression in Ukraine
Russian propaganda outlets are employing exactly the same thematics they did before Moscow intervened in Ukraine, insisting that…
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Putin has as much to fear in Belarusian protests as Lukashenka does, Portnikov says
Because the money is running out and because Russia can no longer make up the difference, Alyaksandr Lukashenka…
Belarus now prime candidate for Russian invasion, and anti-Lukashenka protests may hasten it
In the course of an interview with Kyiv’s Apostrophe portal, Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov says that “Belarus is…
Three Internet appeals from Eurasia with potential real world consequences
The Internet can mobilize people around issues and this mobilization often takes the form of presenting declarations to…
Why was a renowned Ukrainian writer detained in Belarus?
The Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan reported on Facebook that he had been detained in the Republic of Belarus.…
Putin may exploit disarray in Washington to launch attack on Belarus, Minsk experts say
Two experts at the Minsk Center for Strategic and International Research say that Vladimir Putin may use the…
Belarusian authorities are helpless before information and psychological attacks from Russia
Information attacks from Russia in light of tension in Russo-Belarusian relations have demonstrated Minsk’s inability to counteract them…
Moscow media have launched an anti-Belarus campaign, Warsaw’s EAST Center says
Beginning in November, the Eurasian States in Transition (EAST) Center in Warsaw says, Moscow media sharply increased the…
Even if Minsk is against, Putin may launch new invasion of Ukraine from Belarus, experts say
Even though Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government would likely be opposed, Vladimir Putin has sufficient leverage over Belarus to use…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
Belarus under increasing pressure from Russia
While NATO is staging the “Anaconda-16” exercises in Poland, Russian airforce conducts reconnaissance flights over the territory of…
Moscow now training Belarusians in Russian camp headed by openly fascist leader
Belarusians are now being trained in a camp in Russia that is headed by an openly fascist Russian…
Chornobyl destroyed the Soviet Union
Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed…
Moscow media portraying Belarus as ‘enemy and aggressor,’ Oreshkin says
The Moscow media has been filled in recent weeks with a flood of publications portraying Belarus as an…
Putin needs a victory and annexing Belarus on the cheap could give him one, Oreshkin says
Having suffered increasingly obvious “fiascos” in Ukraine and Syria, Vladimir Putin now needs “a victory,” Dmitry Oreskhin says.…
Moscow laying groundwork to annex Belarus, open second front against Ukraine next year
For Vladimir Putin, Viktor Kaspruk argues, “Ukraine is the key to a future Russia or more precisely a…
Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus training fighters for Russian world in special camps
Moscow may or may not get the airbase it wants in Belarus, but the Russian Orthodox Church is…
A Russian hybrid war in Belarus could take one of two forms, Denisenko says
Viktor Denisenko, a Belarusian researcher at the University of Vilnius, says that a Russian hybrid war in Belarus…
Putin becoming a nation builder… in Belarus
Few people have done more to unite and mobilize the Ukrainian nation than Vladimir Putin over the past…
Putin’s push for new base in Belarus – a serious challenge to European security
Russia already has two military facilities in Belarus – a radar site near Baranovichi and a naval communications…