By Özgür Altınbaş There was an 85.7 percent turnout in the presidential elections held in Belarus on January 26. Igor Karpenko, Chairman of the Belarusian Central Election Commission (CEC), stated that 5 million 916 thousand 195 Belarusians voted. President Alexander Lukashenko won the election with 5 million 136 thousand 293 votes. The results of other candidates are as follows: Sergey ...
On July 23, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Saint Petersburg. The two leaders addressed the latest situation in Ukraine, the Wagner issue and the strained relations between Belarus and Poland. We asked Alexey Dzermant, political scientist and the Director of the Center for Research and Development of Continental Integration of North Eurasia, Minsk, about ...
Belarus is probably the country most openly siding with Russia in the war in Ukraine. As such, Belarus is the subject of much debate and assessments. In recent years, Belarus and the President Alexander Lukasenko have gone through the accusations of authoritarianism, protests which the government claimed to be a ‘Color Revolution’ organized by the West, sanctions and discussions on ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat Belarus’ name is constantly mentioned in the Ukraine crisis. The country is in a sense holding the front of Eurasia against NATO expansion. While the countries in the Balkans were torn apart by NATO and fell into the clutches of colored revolutions, Belarus stood firm. The public administration, which resisted globalization, closed all establishments funded by Soros. ...
Around 2000 refugees, arriving to Belarus on approved visas mostly from Iraq, are trying to reach Europe crossing the Polish border at the Bruzgi border checkpoint in the Grodno District of Belarus. This issue is currently on the main agenda of both the region and the world. The tensions began when both the Polish government and the European Commission blamed ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 20. This has been the last meeting between the two leaders, as Merkel will not be a candidate in the September parliamentary elections in Germany. Still, the meeting was much more that a “farewell visit”, as the German press commented. The list of topics on ...
The political crisis in Belarus, which had been almost forgotten over the last few months, actualized again as a result of the incident with the plane of the Ryanair company and the detention of the activist Roman Protasevich. As it is well known, a plane of the Irish Ryanair company, which was travelling from Greece (Athens) to Lithuania (Vilnius), was ...
Allegations of attempted assasination and coup d’etat have shaken Belarus. According to a speech by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on April 17, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a group of people in Moscow who have double citizenship (Belarusian and US citizenship) and attempted to organize the assasination of the sons of Lukashenko and the orchestration of a ...
The real winter, with its freezing cold weather, has finally come. Together with the freezing winter, the protests in Belarus have also frozen in place. The protests of those who do not recognize the official results of the August presidential elections still continue, but unlike the mass protests in winter when weekly protests were attended by tens of thousands of ...
Although the presidential elections in Belarus occurred four months ago, the mass protests of those who don’t recognize the results continue. During the first few weeks following the elections, many people thought that a new “color revolution” (like those, which had happened in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine) would soon occur. However, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has to date managed ...