Belarus

Belarus
Location	Europe
Leader	Belarus/President
Type	nation state
Interest of	Vitaly Shishov, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
Member of	UN
Subpage	•Belarus/Ambassador •Belarus/President
"Europe's last dictatorship" - Formerly part of the USSR

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Major economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus, the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (ca. 1236–1795), the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), and the Russian Empire (1721–1917).

Covid-19 Policies

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The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attracted criticism in late March 2020 for refusing to mandate social distancing in the nation state. IMF and World Bank were interested in him changing the response to Covid-19 to more harsher measures.

Colour revolution 2020

Full article: Colour revolution

After a widely questioned election that allowed Alexander Lukashenko to serve a sixth term, protest erupted in the country. Some were the biggest clashes in the country’s history. The opposition candidate that received considerable publicity and refuge in the EU member state Lithuania, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has had the following statement on her website:

I repeat, I came into politics not for the sake of power, but for the sake of restoring justice. My main goal: to conduct real, fair elections with the participation of all alternative candidates. By voting for me, you are voting for the restoration of your right to choose power, for new and fair elections. Only in this way will the country be able to develop further. We have teamed up with the teams of Victor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo, the best experts, parties and public organizations cooperate with us. They offer programs for the development of the country, which can be found at reformby.com. We have created a strong team for the common goal of building a new Belarus. Let's do it together! To win, you and I must act as one big team.

The "programs for the development of the country" by Victor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo focus under "National security sector reform" at reformby.com on:

• strengthening national identity, increasing patriotism and national dignity;
• unification of society on the basis of democratic values and the idea of building an independent Belarus;
• reduction of the Kremlin's influence on Belarus through informational, economic, integration and humanitarian factors;
• withdrawal from post-Soviet integration associations dominated by Russia;
• integration into Western political, economic and military structures (EU, NATO).

The NATO integration is part of a long term goal "by 2030":

• fulfillment by Belarus of all criteria of membership in the EU and NATO, submission of the corresponding applications for membership in these structures

The document uses terminology that is translated into: "Civil society", which in English is a customary term for American think tanks and foundations; this indicates a US sponsored regime change operation.

In August/September 2020 transatlantic think tanks like the Atlantic Council and CEPA started to hire a number of journalists and (PHD) researchers from the region.

Asked for or not, in August 2020, the EU said it will spend €53 million on Belarus, officially camouflaged as "coronavirus emergency support".

In 2021, Belarus was disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest. Later, the state television and radio broadcasting service of Belarus, Belteleradio was suspended from the European Broadcasting Union.

 

An ambassador to Belarus

Nation state	Start	Description
UK/Ambassador to Belarus

 

Group

A Group Headquartered Here	Description
Belteleradio	The state television and radio broadcasting service of Belarus.

 

Citizens of Belarus on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Alyaksander Lukashenko	30 August 1954
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 a murder 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

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Belarus Under Siege	webpage	29 July 2011	Michele Brand
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.