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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Just when you think you know where Russia’s Wagner Group “private” military company (PMC) is deployed, it pops up somewhere else. In the past year, its…

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If Putin sends troops to Belarus, don’t expect Russians to applaud

(Monkey Cage) Russians don’t like military adventures in bad economic times, my research finds. Yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi to discuss closer integration. The ongoing political…

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Russia Alarmed and Awed by the Belarusian Revolution

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Five weeks of peaceful mass protests in Belarus after the falsified elections on August 9, have profoundly changed this formerly rather stable and conservative country, impressed its European…

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How Do The Belarus Protests Resonate In Central Asia? With Marat, Umarov, Safarov, and Pannier

(Majlis Podcast) For weeks, people in Belarus have been protesting against the results of that country’s August 9 presidential election that saw longtime incumbent leader Alyanksandr Lukashenka claim an overwhelming…

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China in a Belarus Pickle

(China’s Resource Risks) The massive ongoing protests starting in August 2020 in capital city Minsk and throughout the country, galvanized by President Alexander Lukashenko’s fraudulent reelection, have Chinese leaders in…

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Ishchenko: Belarus’s mono-industrial town setup brings together the problems of the community and the workshop

(Jacobin) Since Belarus’s disputed election, both President Alexander Lukashenko and the liberal opposition have recognized the importance of strike actions in deciding what happens next. But while there have been…

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Gelman: The poisoning of Navalny may be connected with events in Belarus

(Pledge Times) Russian opposition leader, activist and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Alexei Navalnyi, 44, is a real “stick under the skin” for an influential district in the Kremlin. In recent years,…

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Belarusian Cossacks—An Option for Putin?

Kurilla: There’s a popular saying for the last couple days: Belarus in 2020 is what Russia will be in 2024

A Very Belarusian Affair: What Sets the Current Anti-Lukashenka Protests Apart?

Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

If Putin sends troops to Belarus, don’t expect Russians to applaud

Russia Alarmed and Awed by the Belarusian Revolution

How Do The Belarus Protests Resonate In Central Asia? With Marat, Umarov, Safarov, and Pannier

China in a Belarus Pickle

Ishchenko: Belarus’s mono-industrial town setup brings together the problems of the community and the workshop

Gelman: The poisoning of Navalny may be connected with events in Belarus