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Analyses |
| Piotr Żochowski
Over 20,000 people took to the streets of Minsk on 15 November, chanting the slogan ‘I’m leaving’. The public reaction to the death of Raman Bandarenka triggered greater involvement from protesters when compared to last week. He was beaten…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
On 6 November, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, announced during the presentation of the results of the economic audit of Ukraine that 5 million hectares of agricultural land had disappeared from state ownership. He thus confirmed the words…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Szymon Kardaś
On 7 November, on the anniversary of the October Revolution, Alyaksandr Lukashenka officially opened the first unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant located in Astravyets. The project was begun in 2012 by the Russian company…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Górecki
On the night of 9-10 November, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia, Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin, signed a statement suspending fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The Sunday protests against Alyaksandr Lukashenka were seen again on 8 November, this time under the slogan ‘People's Rule’. The largest demonstration, with a little over ten thousand participants, took place in Minsk. Only a few small-…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
Political tensions around Taiwan are increasing days before the presidential election in the US. On 26 October the US and Japan began the ten-day Keen Sword exercise in the region of Okinawa, to the northeast of Taiwan. 46,000 soldiers and…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The weekly demonstrations of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s opponents were held on 1 November. This time the slogan "March against Terror" was used. This slogan is associated primarily with the memory of the victims of Stalinism who were executed…
Analyses |
| Piotr Żochowski
During a closed session on 27 October, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CC) issued a ruling that has halted the functioning of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (Ukr. NAZK). This body is one of the key institutions…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Górecki
After the spectacular successes achieved by Azerbaijani forces last week (including cutting off the Karabakh para-state from the border with Iran; see map), the intensity of the fighting has weakened in recent days. At present it is…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 25 October, opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka held another nationwide protest action. This time the demonstrations were held under the slogan of ‘The National Ultimatum’, referring to the demands put forward on 13 October by Sviatlana…