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How do you sanction a problem like Lukashenka? The isolation of Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime is intensifying. Belarusian diplomats are being expelled from Western countries and more face ejection. Major European companies are enduring fierce criticism for doing business in Belarus and are are surfacing that Lukashenka misappropriated European Union funds. The United States and the European Union meanwhile, continue to Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for sanctions on the Belarusian state-controlled potash producer Belaruskali, which is a major s...

Putin’s stealth takeover of Belarus gains momentum As the Russian and Belarusian armed forces launched back-to-back exercises this week, the two countries also announced plans to establish permanent joint military training centers. And just days before the military drills began, a new pro-Kremlin Belarusian political party held its founding congress in Minsk on March 6. Prominent guests included a Russian lawmaker from Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula and an advisor to Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. As the Belarus crisis enters its eighth month, the strategy of Russi...

Questions remain after Putin hosts Lukashenka They But after Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka met for six hours in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on February 22 and spoke again by telephone the next day, it remained unclear where this troubled and often dysfunctional relationship between Europe’s last two dictators actually stands. According to a confidential unpublished report by the Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies, the summit “did not yield significant practical results.” But that does not mean there is nothing t...

Innovative opposition defies Belarus dictator Lukashenka The Belarus People’s Assembly in Minsk on February 11-12 was a retro neo-Soviet affair. With the pomp and circumstance of a 1970s-vintage Communist Party Congress, strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka assailed six months of protests against his autocratic regime as a Western-controlled “rebellion” to a room of nearly 3,000 handpicked loyalists under a banner reading Unity! Development! Independence! Days earlier, on February 7, cities in Europe and North America marked Solidarity With Belarus Day at the request of exiled opposition ...

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