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One Year after the Sanctions: Is Europe ready for the Belarus crisis?

(FIIA) (Co-author: R. Nizhnikau) On February 15, 2016, the EU decided not to prolong the sanctions it had imposed five years earlier on the regime of Alexander Lukashenko in response…

Lukashenko’s “Drift To The West”: Why Moscow Should Not Be Worried

(PONARS Policy Memo) In February 2016, the Council of the European Union lifted sanctions on Belarus. It had imposed them in 2010 in response to the regime’s brutal oppression of…

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Parliamentary Elections in Belarus: A Couple Holes Patched, but Bucket Still Leaking

It would be an exaggeration to say that Minsk did everything it could to please the West during the parliamentary elections that took place in Belarus this past Sunday. But…

Belarus: Europe’s last dictatorship | People and Power (2018)

(Al Jazeera English) In October 2015 a presidential election was held in Belarus. It wasn’t a convincing contest and few thought that victory would go to anyone other than the…

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New Policy Memo: Can EU-Belarusian Relations Be Reset?

It is common to portray the European Union (and the United States) as unwaveringly in support of isolating Belarus. The reality is somewhat different. Over the last two decades, EU-Belarusian…

Can EU-Belarusian Relations Be Reset?

It is common to portray the European Union (and the United States) as unwaveringly in support of isolating Belarus. The reality is somewhat different. Over the last two decades, EU-Belarusian…

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New Policy Memo: Labor Migration in the Eurasian Union: Will Freedom of Movement Trump Domestic Controls?

(Guest contribution by Caress Schenk) In preparation for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens’ full access to the EU labor market in January 2014, UK Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a new policy…

Labor Migration in the Eurasian Union: Will Freedom of Movement Trump Domestic Controls?

(Guest contribution) In preparation for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens’ full access to the EU labor market in January 2014, UK Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a new policy agenda that would…

How Russia’s Food Embargo and Ruble Devaluation Challenge the Eurasian Customs Union

The Russian economic crisis of 2014-15 has dramatically affected cross-border trade among the three central states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia (all of which are…

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Two Summits and a Military Exercise

(EDM) The postponed Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan summit took place last Friday (March 20) in Astana, but the program was cut so short that the only point for staging the event appeared to be…

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One Year after the Sanctions: Is Europe ready for the Belarus crisis?

Lukashenko’s “Drift To The West”: Why Moscow Should Not Be Worried

Parliamentary Elections in Belarus: A Couple Holes Patched, but Bucket Still Leaking

Belarus: Europe’s last dictatorship | People and Power (2018)

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Can EU-Belarusian Relations Be Reset?

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Labor Migration in the Eurasian Union: Will Freedom of Movement Trump Domestic Controls?

How Russia’s Food Embargo and Ruble Devaluation Challenge the Eurasian Customs Union

Two Summits and a Military Exercise