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| 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…
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| 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…
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| Kamil Kłysiński
On 24–25 April, the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly (ABPA) convened in Minsk for its seventh congress since the establishment of the independent Republic of Belarus, and the first since the ABPA was given the status of a constitutional…
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| Kamil Kłysiński
In 2023, trade between the European Union and Belarus was characterised by a significant surplus of EU exports over imports. Sales to the Belarusian market totalled €8.1 billion, while trade in the opposite direction was almost six times…
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| Kamil Kłysiński
On 5 January, an amendment to the legal act ‘On freedom of conscience and religious organisations’ was published in the Belarusian legal register. The government justified this change in the law in terms of “the need to put the legislation…
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| 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.…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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…