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February 9, 2007
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This commentary from the German Marshall Fund of the United States describes the increasingly erratic behaviour of Alexander Lukashenko, who the Fund characterises as 'the brutal autocrat in charge of Belarus'.
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January 3, 2007
Daily Analysis
Energy disputes, pipeline politics, and a takeover of the Sakhalin II project have clouded Russia’s relations with its neighbors and foreign investors.
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December 6, 2006
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Belarus is an outsider in the political culture of Europe, says this guide to the country from the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The report argues that Belarus is politically, economically and socially far cry from European normality. As the March 2006 presidential elections illustrated, Belarus' democratization efforts of the early 1990s have not only ground to a complete halt but have increasingly given way to open dictatorship under President Alexander Lukashenka.
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April 25, 2006
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An interview with Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich about the effectiveness of the EU's policies in the country, the next steps of the Belarusian opposition, and the future of the country's relations with Russia.
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April 18, 2006
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April 2006
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March 22, 2006
Interview
In light of a disappointing performance by the Belarus democratic opposition, dissident Alexander Kozulin tells cfr.org his supporters will never stop trying to liberalize society in the former Soviet republic.
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March 21, 2006
News Briefing
Supporters of Belarusian opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich defied bans on public rallies to protest reports of widespread fraud during the March 19 presidential polls that overwhelmingly re-elected Alexander Lukashenka as president of the former Soviet republic. But, as cfr.org's Lionel Beehner reports from Minsk, protesters began streaming back home Tuesday evening as the cold Eurasian night began to fall.
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March 20, 2006
Interview
One of the Belarusian opposition’s few elder statesmen, Stanislav Shushkevich, says the March 19 presidential polls were “absolutely falsified.” In an interview with cfr.org from Minsk, he discusses the election, life in Belarus under President Alexander Lukashenka, and prospects for a peaceful revolt similar to those in Ukraine or Georgia.
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Updated: March 22, 2006
Daily Analysis
As the EU and Washington mull diplomatic punishment for a Belarus election they view as a fraud, opposition crowds braving snows and security forces are fast fading.
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