
Minsk as a priority
New, more radical actions of Lukashenko’s regime should move Belarus to the top priority place in Polish foreign policy. We need iron consistency. Resolute diplomatic steps should be combined with an effective information campaign directed at Belarusians and with breaking any talks with Lukashenko. For Poland objective number one should be to persuade the European […]

Initiative for the Freedom to Political Prisoners in Belarus
2010 Presidential Election in Belarus brought unprecedented escalation of oppression against democratic activists in the country Hundreds of activists across Belarus were detained, beaten up and intimidated. Dozens of them were sentenced to lengthy terms in high security prisons This civil initiative aims at an immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Belarus […]

Open letter from the European Convention on Liberal Democracy to the European Union, its member states, and the United States calling for an urgent response to recent events in Belarus
The European Convention on Liberal Democracy (ECLD) – a coalition of 30 pro-democracy groups and individuals across Europe and the United States – condemns in the strongest terms December’s fraudulent elections and subsequent repression in Belarus, and calls on the European Union, its Member States, and the United States to move beyond verbal condemnations and […]

The implications of gas crisis between Belarus and Russia
Paweł Luty: Recently we have experienced a huge crisis between Belarus and Russia over natural gas. Belarus owed Gazprom millions of dollars. Minsk answered that Russians also had not settled their debt for the transit of LPG. Apart from the economic reasons, do you see any other source of the conflict? Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski: […]