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Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 8 December, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka visited the United Arab Emirates, where he met President Muhammad ibn-Zayid al-Nahayyan. Their topics of discussion included deepening bilateral trade and investment cooperation.…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Macroeconomic data for the first six months of 2023 confirm Belarus’s steadily increasing dependence on Russia. In the second year of the war, Minsk is paying a high price for its complicity in Russia’s aggression, the regime’s acts of…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Kamil Kłysiński
On 30 September, officials from the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice submitted a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on behalf of the Republic of Lithuania to initiate an investigation into the situation in Belarus…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The founding congress of the Belaya Rus political party was held in Minsk on 18 March. It is based on the pro-regime social organisation of the same name, which has been active since 2007. More than 1000 delegates adopted its party…
OSW Commentary |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Kamil Kłysiński
Hostile attitudes towards Belarusians in Lithuania have become more widespread as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with Belarus’s involvement. This animosity has been further exacerbated by the ongoing debate in the Lithuanian…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 8 February, a regional court in Hrodna sentenced Andrzej Poczobut, the journalist and deputy chairman of the Union of Poles in Belarus, to eight years’ imprisonment to a hard-labour penal colony. Poczobut had been charged with “calling…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
An amendment to the law On the citizenship of the Republic of Belarus, signed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, was published on 10 January. Its provisions include the possibility of revoking the citizenship of a person living abroad who has been…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Piotr Żochowski
On 25 February, the parliamentary elections in Belarus were combined for the first time with local council elections as part of the so-called single voting day. Belarusians elected 110 deputies to the House of Representatives (out of a…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 8 December, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed the law on amnesty which had been announced several months earlier, on the occasion of National Unity Day on 17 September. According to the document, 4500 individuals…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Alyaksandr Lukashenka gave a keynote speech on Belarusian historical policy during the patriotic “This is our history!” forum which was held in Minsk on 17 September on the occasion of the National Unity Day celebrations. This public…