Behind authoritarian leaders’ warm words welcoming the Belarusian state’s announcement that Alyaksandr Lukashenka had won a sixth term by a landslide were cold calculations, observers said: First, how to secure… Read more »
In response to Belarus’s latest stolen election, the democratic opposition has adopted three principles of protest, writes Sławomir Sierakowski, a Polish political analyst, and founding leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political… Read more »
Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide reelection according to preliminary results announced Monday that have already provoked protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging. Police violently dispersed demonstrations overnight (above)… Read more »
Voters in Belarus are heading to the polls to elect their president in an unusually dramatic and hotly-contested vote. What was widely anticipated to be a smooth re-election ride for… Read more »
Some 60,000 people joined an opposition rally in Belarus, where presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she was “tired of being afraid” and wanted to bring about peaceful change in the… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
For the first time since protests during the presidential race of 2010, Belarusians finally see the real chance to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko after 26 years of dictatorship, Aliaksandra… Read more »
Belarus’s oft-maligned civil society, which most people had written off years ago – after 26 years of persecution and authoritarian rule – has risen to the challenge of confronting the… Read more »
Encouraging the creation of a cadre of ‘active citizens’ in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova will help increase social cohesion and build ‘cognitive resilience’ to malign Russian influence from the ground… Read more »
The European Parliament has expressed concern over the “new wave of repression” in Belarus, which includes raids on raids on civil society organizations and “preventive” arrests of opposition members before the protests…. Read more »