The Belarusian authorities arbitrarily detained and abused hundreds of people following a rally protesting President Aliaksandr Lukashenka's re-election on December 19, 2010, and have since carried out a campaign to stifle civil society and free expression across the country, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.читать дальше »

The intensified confrontation between Minsk and Kremlin officials together with unprecedented activity of the united Europe in the “Belarusian direction” put Belarus’ bilateral relations with other countries into shadow.  Yet, in present circumstances, their significance is rapidly growing. читать дальше »

Independent studies of public opinion in Belarus for many years have revealed the exact and typical structure of electorate of the incumbent president. Alexander Lukashenka is the president of pensioners, women and villages. His electorate is concentrated among undereducated, declassed levels of population. The ideology and the policy of the state, fixed in a well-known slogan "bread and circuses", catered directly for this kind of electorate.читать дальше »

The relations between the Belarusian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church are independent of the Belarusian-Russian crisis, because, at present, the Belarusian Exarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate are united by greater values and ideology and not by politics of today.читать дальше »