Belarus

By Tobias Ljungvall, Published on Covert Action Magazine, Jan 26, 2023: The author, Tobias Ljungvall, explains what happened during the 2020-2021 protests that aimed but failed to overthrow [...]

The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, [...]

One doesn’t have to trust the motives of a public official, doesn’t have to assume that because observations are accurate they’re also disinterested, to appreciate the veracity (at least the [...]

The Ukrainian government has announced that it is shoring up security and military forces in the north of the country on its border with Belarus and to the south on what it calls the [...]

The foreign minister of Belarus, Vladimir Makei, recently told the Russian newspaper Kommersant that the threat of a new cold – and behind that a hot – war appeared to be confronting his nation, [...]

Since the arrest of Roman Protasevich in Minsk after the emergency landing of the Ryanair flight he was on, a real battle for his reputation has been launched between Belarus and the West, among [...]

Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s [...]

VIDEO This panel was hosted by the International Manifesto Group on December 13, 2020. The dominant western media have reported the recent unrest in Belarus as a popular protest against a [...]

Why has the 2020 Belarus “color revolution” failed, and what should the Belarusian left do about it, asks Alexander Kolesnikov. By Alexander Kolesnikov Published in Russian [...]

On August 9, presidential elections were held in Ukraine’s neighbor, Belarus. Economically, they are mutually dependent on each other, and Russia is too, but currently it seems as if trade, like [...]