Maidan pa-Belarusku: Minsk’s next steps
byTurmoil marred the oft-ignored Belarusian presidential elections as Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the wife of an arrested presidential candidate, challenges incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka. As popular protests…
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The Giedroyc Doctrine and National Reconciliation
byIn June 2020, on the 79th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion by Nazi German invasion, Russian state media published a flurry of programming…
Belarusians Still Denied Freedom 80 Years After Molotov-Ribbentrop
byRemarks by Andrei Sannikov delvered at the September 12, 2019, Toronto, Black Ribbon Day Confernece It’s a great privilege to be here tonight, thank…
How Putin’s Stalinist nostalgia made him an enemy of democracy
byFor roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…
The Threat of A New Chernobyl
byWhen the Chernobyl Prayer (also known as Voices from Chernobyl) by Svetlana Alexievich was published in 1997 it didn’t draw a lot of attention….
The Independence of Belarus is a Matter of International Security
byInternational attention to Belarus has recently acquired a peculiar angle. The reason for concern this time, is the fate of its dictator Alexander Lukashenka,…
Appeasement of Lukashenka threatens the independence of Belarus
byRecently Belarus started to draw attention again, sort of. This time, as a new potential victim of Russian aggression. Suddenly the international media has…