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Belarus
Belarus
Location	Europe
Leader	Belarus/President;
Type	nation state
Interest of	Vitaly Shishov, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
Member of	UN
Subpage	•Belarus/Ambassador; •Belarus/President;

Revision as of 10:48, 31 March 2020

The Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka attracted criticism in late March 2020 for refusing to mandate social distancing in the nation state.^[1]

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	“It is not likely. But he is unpredictable and consumed by resentment and rancour. So, you should not exclude the possibility that he'll be creating a problem between Kaliningrad and Belarus. That area is the gateway from Western Europe to the Baltic countries. If he closes that passage, it would be a reason for war for NATO.”	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NOS	24 February 2022

Group	Start	Description
Belteleradio	1956	The state television and radio broadcasting service of Belarus.

Title	Born	Died	Description
Svetlana Alexievich	31 May 1948
Alexander Lukashenko	30 August 1954		Declined "$940 million in so-called rapid financing" from the World Bank because it was conditional on his agreeing to impose lockdowns etc. Later survived a regime change operation
Vitaly Shishov	1995	3 August 2021	The former head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine which helps people escape repression in Belarus. He was found hung. Suspected to be an assassination made look like a suicide.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya	11 September 1982
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya	19 November 1996		Athlete who refused to go home to Belarus from the 2020 Olympics.
Anastasia Vashukevich	1982

Event	Start	Location(s)	Description
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	24 February 2022	Ukraine Europe Kiev Russia Donbas Moscow Black Sea	In a new episode of Cold War 2.0 Russia forcefully halted NATO expansion by invading Ukraine, with financial support of China. Although the EU and US denounced the "war crimes" as multiple cities were bombed, several countries opted less severe sanctions to keep importing diamonds and luxury goods and gas (and their loaned money) from Russia, seemingly creating a new iron curtain in Eastern Europe.

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Alyaksander Lukashenko on Polish Border Forces and Emil Czeczko	Statement	22 December 2021	Alexander Lukaschenko
Document:Belarus Under Siege	webpage	29 July 2011	Michele Brand
Document:Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. NATO shouldn’t take the bait	Article	24 April 2023	Nikolai Sokov	Moscow regards the United States and Europe as parties to the war; Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that Russia and the United States are in a “hot phase” of war. These statements elevate the Russian war against Ukraine to the category of a “regional conflict” according to the 2000 and subsequent Russian Military Doctrines – a category that allows for limited use of nuclear weapons.
File:NATIONAL SECURITY SECTOR REFORM-reformby-com.pdf	paper		Victor Babariko Valery Tsepkalo	Translated security program from reformby.com for Belarus by the opposition in 2020.

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-The [[Belarusian President]] [[Alyaksandr Lukashenka]] attracted widespread criticism in late March 2020 for refusing to mandate social distancing in the nation state.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/belarusian-lockdown-independent-journalists-decry-draconian-repression/29422690.html</ref>
+The [[Belarusian President]] [[Alyaksandr Lukashenka]] attracted criticism in late March 2020 for refusing to mandate social distancing in the nation state.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/psychosis-lukashenka-shrugs-opponents-are-appalled-by-lack-of-covid-19-measures-in-belarus/30506812.html</ref>
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