Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

I know that some even have Russian flags in their offices ... to avoid isolating Belarus like North Korea. Supporting independent media and political institutions as alternatives to the regime is also ...

Ukraine chose a path to democratic freedoms that it now pays for with “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” to quote Churchill.

A few decades back, a decreasing number of countries were given taints of autocracies and dictatorship (even though many were ...

Belarus has opened early voting for a presidential ... “The government knows this is problematic, but there are no alternatives,” he said. Analysts see few chances of mass protests following ...

On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north ...

It is not as repressive as Aleksander Lukashenko’s Belarus, but neither as permissive ... of “political” signs such as European Union flags, which Vucic has previously used to discredit ...

Today is the second day of the Munich Security Conference 2025. Several events on February 15 are dedicated to the war in ...

For decades, the prospect of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans (WB) was seen (and invested in) as a certain process (and return on investment) – one that ...

Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Aleksandr Vorontsov once again went on a trip to the Prielbrusye National Park to combine ...

January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them ... He is a presidential candidate who openly backs his opponent. "There is no alternative to Alexander Lukashenko as the leader of our country," Mr Syrankov ...