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Belarusian State-Run TV Scores Propaganda Victories
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 72
(Source: newmedia24.net)
In his April 29 interview to
Euronews, Belarus’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei had this to say about the crackdown on the protest movement that followed the August 9 presidential elections: “Perhaps the authorities sometimes acted too harshly. But this was an appropriate reaction to […] violent protest actions… In fact, a
coup d’état was attempted after the elections… The fate of the country was at stake. And if we put the fate of the country on one side of the scale and the things you are talking about, including human rights, on the other, I am convinced that the leadership of every country would choose to preserve statehood and sovereignty” (Onliner, April 29).
Minsk Wages Diplomatic War on Multiple Fronts
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 58
Belarusian Embassy in Warsaw
On April 4, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka proposed to “optimize” the number of Belarusian embassies and their staff around the world. Essentially, the Belarusian leader declared, if Belarus’s “diplomatic presence” in some countries has no “prospects” because of a minuscule volume of mutual trade and/or because those countries are hostile to Belarus, then the latter should limit or eliminate its diplomatic staff in their capitals. In fact, that process has already been underway since at least as early as October 2020, when Minsk recalled its ambassadors from Vilnius and Warsaw and demanded that their embassies in Minsk reduce their diplomatic personnel from 25 to 14 and from 50 to 18, respectively. Now, the Belarusian authorities will be rethinking the size of their own diplomatic personnel dispatched all across the globe (Naviny, April
Even the Near Future Is Uncertain in Belarus
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 10
(source: novayagazeta.ru)
The
Belorysy i Rynok newspaper asked three prominent Belarusian analysts to predict the country’s near future. But two out of three only shared observations, not forecasts. Thus, Piotr Rudkovsky, head of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, observed that for any political regime, creating an enemy out of half of the population is irrational. According to Yauheni Preiherman, head of Minsk Dialogue, pressure from the West always makes the Belarusian regime toughen its stand vis-à-vis domestic opposition. Besides, this pressure limits President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s ability to say no to Moscow, whose new push to boost the level of integration with Belarus is a sure bet. Only Andrei Yeliseyev, director of Warsaw-based EAST center, predicted that the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly to be convened February 11–12 will elect a presidium wi