Alexander Lukashenko

The Belarusian opposition’s main presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held her first rally on Sunday. At least 7,500 people took to streets in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. It is an astonishing number, which perhaps surprised Tsikhanouskaya and the rest of her team. When she came on stage and saw the crowds, she broke into tears. […]

Analysts and journalists professionally engaged with Belarus complain about stagnation. They say that they could “copy” and “paste” fragments of old texts to create a new analysis. For it all happened before. There was the “intensified harassment of the opposition”; there were the subsequent “thaw waves”; there was the “tightening of the screws” and “opening […]