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Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Jan Strzelecki, Piotr Żochowski

Russias controversial ambassador in Minsk is dismissed

On 30 April, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Babich from the position of ambassador in Minsk and replaced him with Dmitry Mezentsev, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. Babich had acted in the…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Wojciech Konończuk

Dirty oil the greatest crisis in the history of the Druzhba pipeline

On 19 April, the Belarusian oil company Belneftekhim reported a significant deterioration in the quality of Russian oil transmitted to Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline. The level of organochlorine compounds was dozens of times over the…
Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk

Difficult talks between Russia and Belarus

On 25 December the presidents of Russia and Belarus met at the Kremlin to resolve some areas of dispute, in particular the further integration of the two countries and the terms for supply of oil. The talks between Vladimir Putin and…
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Marek Menkiszak, Jan Strzelecki

Russia puts pressure on Belarus

On 13 December, at a meeting of the Belarus-Russia Union State Council of Ministers held in Brest, Russian Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev, publicly talked about two scenarios for further integration of the two countries. The first would…
Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk

Government reshuffle in Belarus

On 18 August, Alyaksandr Lukashenka carried out a major government overhaul, dismissing the prime minister, four out of five deputy prime ministers and four ministers.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński

The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian Peoples Republic

On 25th March in the centre of Minsk a concert was held in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian People’s Republic.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Tadeusz Iwański, Kamil Całus

Ukraine Moldova and Belarus on the Eastern Partnership

The fifth Eastern Partnership summit will take place in Brussels on 24 November. This programme is perceived differently today by Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.
Analyses | | Tadeusz Iwański, Kamil Kłysiński

Belarusian-Ukrainian co-operation with Russia in the background

On 20–21 July, the Belarusian president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, made an official visit to Kyiv where he met with the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko. 
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński, Piotr Żochowski

Alyaksandr Lukashenka sharpens his rhetoric towards the West

President Alyaksandr Lukashenka informed that the Belarusian prosecution authorities had detained a group of tens of people preparing for an armed provocation.
Analyses | | Kamil Kłysiński

A series of social protests in Belarus

On 5th March approximately a thousand people protested in Brest against the presidential decree on ‘preventing social parasitism’.