With Russia pressuring Belarus to play a more active role in the war, Ukraine is strengthening the hand of the exiled Belarusian opposition.
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Behind the difference looms the specter of Russia, which each side sees in increasingly opposing terms.
The Belarus president has been elected to serve a seventh term of office with 87% of the vote.
In power since 1994, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko has aligned the country with Russia in an ideological battle with the West.
Alexander Lapshin’s experiences being detained and tortured for allegedly insulting an authoritarian strongman highlights the dangers faced by activists even in seemingly secure environments.
The Indian prime minister’s visit to Kyiv highlights complex behind-the-scenes manoeuvring with important geopolitical implications.
Having silenced critics at home, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is now seeking to do so beyond the country’s borders.
Why is there such a Russian focus on the Second World War? Because it’s used to justify authoritarian states, the rule of dictators like Putin and Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Wagner Group mercenaries in Belarus remain a worrying wild card with possible consequences for the conflict and the wider region.
Machinations over the march on Moscow are continuing.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
For the past few years Alexander Lukashenko has had to depend on Moscow’s help to keep him in power. Now he appears to have returned the favour.
From the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom, female-centered imagery and social media are battlegrounds of resistance and oppression.
If Russia moves nuclear warheads into Belarus the political fallout could be enormous.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Belarus is unlikely to put troops into Ukraine, but it can make life very difficult for Kyiv’s war planners.
Belarusians make up one of the most prominent contingents of foreign fighters in Ukraine. Here’s why they’re fighting and what they hope to achieve for Belarus as well as Ukraine.
While Belarus is rightly seen as a co-aggressor in Russia’s war on Ukraine, its future involvement in the conflict is open to speculation. One thing is certain: a majority of Belarusians oppose it.
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen Mary University of London
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies and Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Researcher in International Politics, University of Hamburg
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Research fellow with the Centre for French Culture, University of Warsaw
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PhD Fellow in Political Science, Ghent University
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Doutora em Política Social e Professora, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP)