Belarus News & Analysis

Exploring the factors behind Minsk’s repeated attempts to weaponize migrant flows to the European Union.

The COVID-19 pandemic bifurcates between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, Netanyahu faces another moment of reckoning in Israel, and China’s yuan hits multi-year highs in May.

Minsk has calculated that there’s nothing the EU can do to hurt Lukashenko regime, and it’s probably correct.

Exploring the motivations behind various authoritarian responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Illusions of a sudden pro-Western and democratic Belarus are only that: illusions.

The Belarus crisis is mainly the result of domestic political tensions. But paradoxically, this is an internal issue that carries a profound international dimension as well.

What’s at stake for Moscow in the ongoing Belarus crisis, and how far is the Kremlin willing to go to protect its interests?

Counter-protests have been a risky proposition for beleaguered governments through the 2010s. Will Belarus be any different?

The time has come for Belarusians to choose their president, and the time may soon come for Belarus to pick a side in the geopolitical game going on above its head.

Following an oil dispute at the start of the year, Belarus and Russia’s relations are at an all-time low, potentially further isolating Russia in Europe.

Belarus’ skewing of COVID-19 statistics is unfortunate, but it must be viewed in the context of its ongoing high-stake geopolitical standoff with Moscow.

With the West largely absent, Africa is turning to China and Eastern Europe for help recovering from COVID-19.

What can Bulgarian nationalism teach us about the country’s COVID-19 strategy?

Minsk has tried to carve out a more independent niche since the Ukraine crisis, but its room for maneuver remains severely constrained.

The Russian president’s attempts at consolidating his ‘near abroad’ might have the opposite effect.