How do energy politics impact national sovereignty of Belarus? Most Perfect Soviet’ Republic

June 1, 2010

20th Century: From the Most Backward to the Most Perfect Soviet’ Republic In all probability, had the recent energy crisis and underlying it geopolitical factors happened in the mid 20th century, Belarus would not be impacted all that much by it. Because of the above-mentioned historical transformations, before the Russian revolution as well as in [...]

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How do energy politics impact national sovereignty of Belarus? Geographical position

May 28, 2010

Geographical Position: Blessing or Curse? It can be said that Belarus is equally blessed and cursed by its geographical location. On one hand, it is positioned between Russian Federation and the Western Europe and can potentially serve as a window of opportunity because Belarus is the direct and closest bridge for Russian energy exports into [...]

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How do energy politics impact national sovereignty of Belarus? Situation overview

May 24, 2010

Read the introduction here. In the last ten years, Belarusian economy fueled with cheap Russian energy experienced high growth rates; however, such rapid economic development parallels a process of a close political alliance with Russia and potentially might threaten Belarusian sovereignty. In order to fully understand events and factors that led Belarus to such position, [...]

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How do energy politics impact national sovereignty of Belarus? Introduction.

May 20, 2010

On December 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich and Leonid Kravchuk, the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, signed the Belavezha agreement which effectively dissolved the Soviet Union. As a result of this colossal event, Belarus, just like other former Soviet republics, not only acquired independence but also faced a crucial survival test. The republic [...]

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US Embassy to be shut down in Belarus?

May 2, 2008

US Charge d’Affaires Jonathan Moore said to the Charter’97 press center that there’s no formal decision on shutting the embassy in Minsk. According to the diplomat, Washington is continuing to consider the situation about the American diplomats in Belarus. The Associated Press reported 1 May the US Department of State had ordered Belarus to close [...]

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The Need for a Trans-Atlantic Energy Security Strategy. The US-Ukrainian Energy Dialogue Series.

May 2, 2008

Hello world. I apologize for not posting any articles for a while. So I thought that it would be good to re-start posting with some interesting material on global energy, security and geopolitics that greatly influence many important decisions in our rather turbulent times. Not long ago, on April 15, 2008, the Center for US-Ukrainian [...]

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Belarus in WWII through German military photos

April 9, 2008

I tried to start writing this post couple of times and every time I ended up looking at the blinking cursor and unable to collect my thoughts. Sometimes pictures can tell the story better than words and this is why we simply put here WWII military photos made by German soldiers in Belarus during the [...]

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Andrei Sannikov: “Lukashenka is preparing Belarus’ surrender to Russia”

April 2, 2008

An interesting comments made by Andrei Sannikov,a member of the organising committee of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, appeared on the web(Charter97.org). And I think they are worth of your time as he goes over some important issues facing Belarus and its political direction. “Alyaksandr Lukashenka is consciously set to break relations with the US, [...]

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Documentary:Lessons of Belarusian Language

April 2, 2008

Not long ago we wrote about a documentary movie ‘Lessons of Belarusian Language”. Back then, it was unavailable to viewers; however, thanks to comments from our readers we are happy to write that this movie is available on line! below is a recap of a blog and the movie itself. Radio Svaboda reports that First [...]

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Kalinovski Square: The History of Modern Belarus in concise video format

March 28, 2008

Couple years ago we publish two photo/video clips dedicated to Belarusian opposition movement. By no stretch of imagination we pretended to be big time movie directors, however, it was our take on the situation. However, judging by the comments, our modest video attempt was well received and many expressed interest to learn more about Belarus, [...]

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