Russia’s War and Belarus’s Ravaged Sovereignty
For more than two years, Belarus has been stuck in a political crisis. Ever since the fraudulent presidential election and anti-government protests in August 2020, the root cause is that…
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The Informational Dictator’s Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus
In Russia and throughout much of the post-Soviet space, media are now less free than at any point since the end of the Soviet Union. Authoritarian regimes across the region…
Forever Together? Relations Between Moscow and Minsk After the Belarusian Revolution of 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Belarusian Revolution was a stress test for Belarus-Russia relations. The domestic political crisis that followed the rigged presidential elections of 2020 weakened the Minsk regime…
Why Russia Is Unlikely to Use Zapad-2021 to Intervene Militarily in European Countries
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The last time Russia and Belarus teamed up to hold a large-scale strategic command-and-staff military exercise, a number of international media outlets pondered whether it might…
The Belarus Protests and Russia: Lessons for “Big Brother”
The anti-Lukashenka protests in Belarus, which have lasted since August 2020, may have slipped off the front pages of international media, but the recent pro-Navalny demonstrations in Russia make for…
The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal
(Sage) This essay attempts to juxtapose mass-scale protest movements that almost simultaneously erupted in summer 2020 in Belarus and Russia’s Far East. In spite of dissimilar root causes of both events,…
Belarus Protests Have Explosive Potential for EU-Russia Relations
(Carnegie Moscow Center) Belarus has been engulfed by protests ever since the contested presidential election back in August, and whatever happens, it seems things cannot ever just go back to the…
Belarusian Cossacks—An Option for Putin?
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Due to certain superficial similarities between the ongoing post-election demonstrations in Belarus and the EuroMaidan protests in Kyiv in 2013–2014, some commentators have speculated about the possibility of…
Kurilla: There’s a popular saying for the last couple days: Belarus in 2020 is what Russia will be in 2024
(U.S. News & World Report) This year should have ushered in Russia’s return to greatness and Putin’s assumption of ‘great statesman’ status. Instead it has been marked by trouble for the…
A Very Belarusian Affair: What Sets the Current Anti-Lukashenka Protests Apart?
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Unprecedented mass protests in Belarus against the rigged presidential elections on August 9 continue into their sixth week with no signs of abating. They are massive,…