Happy? New? Yeah…
There’s nothing else you can talk about in Belarus these days. After the presidential election on 19 December people woke up in a different country. New year 2011 has brought a new reality to Belarus....
View ArticleAutocrat Autumn
Autocratic regimes often hit the ground running. The October Revolution in Russia in 1917 was hailed by intellectuals as a socialist and a social coup. Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and Cuba’s Fidel were...
View ArticleNot Russia
As a Belarusian joke goes: There are tours to Belarus organised for the Russians to see what they will have after the presidential elections on 4 March. Putin will be elected, but of course situation...
View Article(im)Prove
Improvement becomes a philosophical matter, when it is about less repression in a country that barely has any political activity left to repress. Belarus has seen no sign of change. Wait. Signs, yes....
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