Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: There Is No Safe Exile
byText of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s keynote address delivered at April 1, 2026, “Defending Democracy’s Frontline Defenders” event at thte Embassy of Canada in Berlin. We…
Belarus
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,…
Sannikov: West Must Support Belarusian Democratic Opposition
byExiled Belarusian pro-democracy opposition leader, Andrei Sannikov, was a leading contender in the 2010 Belarusian Presidential elections. He was beaten and arrested after participating…
Putin Reprising in Belarus Stalin’s Tactics in the Baltic Countries in 1939-1940, Felshtinsky Says
byStaunton – In the wake of the August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which gave him a free hand in the Baltic countries, Stalin first demanded…
Shevtsova: Belarus, ‘Key to Baltics,’ Perhaps Even More Important for Moscow than Ukraine
byStaunton – For Vladimir Putin, Belarus is “the key to the Baltic countries” as a military-strategic outpost and thus quite possibly Minsk will turn…