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Tag: Alexander Lukashenko

Posted inUkraine War

How a Belarus invasion could turn the Ukraine war

by Daniel Williams January 26, 2023January 27, 2023

The government of Belarus, which during the past three years has moved politically ever closer to Russia, is under pressure from Moscow to deepen its involvement in the Russian war on Ukraine. At issue is whether Belarus’s President-for-life Alexander Lukashenko will let Moscow’s armed forces launch from his country an assault on Kiev, Ukraine’s capital. […]

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Belarus probably won’t invade Ukraine right away

by Stefan Wolff and Anastasiya Bayok June 22, 2022June 29, 2022
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Few foreign friends for Putin’s Ukraine war

by Nikola Mikovic March 14, 2022March 18, 2022
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What Russia’s hold over Belarus means for Ukraine, and Syria

by Nikola Mikovic February 25, 2022February 25, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Migration and geopolitics: the Belarus-Poland border crisis

by Alfred de Zayas and Adriel Kasonta November 17, 2021November 17, 2021
Posted inSecurity

Is Belarus migrant crisis a new type of war?

by Sascha Dominik Bachmann November 17, 2021November 18, 2021
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Middle East migrants become pawns in new cold war

by Nikola Mikovic November 16, 2021November 16, 2021
Posted inEU

Migrant row: Belarus threatens to cut gas to Europe

by Jennifer Mathers November 15, 2021November 18, 2021
Posted inEurope

Belarus uses migrants in hybrid warfare on EU

by Daniel Williams November 10, 2021November 16, 2021
Posted inOpinion

The growing threat of transnational repression

by Daniel Williams August 10, 2021August 11, 2021
Posted inBelarus

Europe walks tightrope in bid to oust Lukashenko

by Daniel Williams June 8, 2021June 10, 2021
Posted inAnalysis

Belarus hijacks Biden-Putin summit

by Tatsiana Kulakevich June 6, 2021June 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

For autocrats like Putin, repression is often a winner

by Shelley Inglis April 10, 2021April 9, 2021
Posted inRussia, World

Russia could absorb Belarus amid upheaval

by Richard Giragosian September 9, 2020September 11, 2020
Posted inAnalysis

Risk of a Russian intervention rising in Belarus

by MK Bhadrakumar August 20, 2020August 24, 2020
Posted inRussia

On Russia’s Victory Day, veterans defiant amid Covid rampage

by Giovanni Pigni May 10, 2020May 20, 2020
Posted inCentral Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, World

Russia deepens footprint across Central Asia

by Alexander Kruglov December 9, 2019February 18, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on May 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Sergei Bobylev/TASS
Posted inRussia, World

Putin’s plan to slowly reclaim Russia’s lost empire

by Alexander Kruglov January 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a summit in Sochi, Russia, in October 2017. Photo: Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
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Russia stuck in a groove as Putin faces existential quandary

by Sergey Aleksashenko February 27, 2018February 18, 2020

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