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Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński
On 30 December 2024, a court in Minsk sentenced Father Henryk Okolotowicz to 11 years in a high-security penal colony. The trial was held behind closed doors; information about the verdict reached the media through unofficial channels. At…
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Piotr Żochowski
On 6 December, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State of Russia and Belarus (Union State), the leaders of the two nations signed a package of ten agreements in Minsk. These included a pact…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
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The rapid growth of the IT sector in Belarus – an ‘island of modernity’ within an outdated economic model, partly based on Soviet-era management and planning standards – had been a success story for nearly two decades since 2005.
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Krzysztof Nieczypor
Analyses | | Jakub Ber, Andrzej Wilk
Analyses | | Maria Domańska, Piotr Żochowski, Witold Rodkiewicz
On 1 August, Ankara witnessed the largest prisoner exchange between the US and Russia since the Cold War. The exchange also involved Belarus, Germany, Poland, Norway, and Slovenia.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński
On 27 June, Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced a number of appointments to important government positions. The key post of Head of the Presidential Administration went to the Belarusian ambassador to Moscow, Dzmitry Krutoi, who has previously…
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński
Between 25 and 27 May the first elections were held to the Coordination Council (CC), a representative body of Belarusian civil society which has been operating (mainly in exile) in various formats since the presidential elections in 2020…