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27.02.2009, 13:10 1 comment

Is Europe blackmailing Belarus?

Will the EU allow Belarus to join its ‘Eastern Partnership’ program without any preconditions? Comments by some European officials suggest that may not be the case.

16.03.2009, 16:35 1 comment

Travel ban waiver for Belarus President prolonged

EU foreign ministers confirmed they are not going to put back in force travel restrictions against dozens of Belarusian officials including President Lukashenko, which were lifted five months ago.

AFP Photo / Belta / Nikolay Petrov 23.06.2009, 23:30

EU commissioner seeks reforms in Belarus

Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, called her meeting with Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko “very productive.”

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM : L to R: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso in Stockholm on November 18, 2009. (AFP Photo / Ria Novosti / Kremlin Pool / Vladimir Rodionov) 25.11.2009, 13:32 2 comments

Moscow positive about final pre-Lisbon Russia-EU summit

Moscow has hailed the results the Russia-EU summit last week as positive, namely the signing of agreements concerning a cross-border cooperation program, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko.

Members of the unauthorized procession of the Belarusian opposition Day of Liberty in the center of Minsk (RIA Novosti / Andrei Aleksandrov) 21.10.2010, 18:30 24 comments

Belarusian opposition march to elections “in different columns”

As the Belarusian opposition considers uniting before the presidential election, Aleksandr Lukashenko has said that disagreements with Russia will be overcome.

RIA Novosti / Sergey Guneev 20.10.2010, 17:25 8 comments

Belarus’ new geopolitical accents

The Belarusian leader defines geopolitical priorities as another presidential candidate speaks in favor of closer ties with the EU and NATO and against Russian as a state language.

Aleksandr Lukashenko (AFP Photo / Alexander Nemenov) 19.03.2009, 14:39 1 comment

Belarus’ president seems less content with Europe

Ongoing contact between European institutions and the Belarusian opposition seem to irritate the Belarusian leader to such an extent that he is ready to make changes to his pro-European agenda.

08.05.2009, 00:20 1 comment

Eastern partnership summit: better to be an onlooker?

Based upon the number of missing invitees, the Eastern Partnership summit in Prague has been comparable to a dull university lection. Almost all major EU leaders thought they’d better stay at home.

 Aleksandr Lukashenko 15.04.2010, 17:21 9 comments

Belarus regrets having no nukes

President Aleksandr Lukashenko, offended for not being invited to Washington’s nuclear security summit, noted that Belarus possesses hundreds of kilos of highly-enriched uranium and is not going to get rid of it.

15.10.2010, 19:55 3 comments

Interests of Russian and Belarusian people “most important” - Putin

The vital interests of brotherly peoples count most in relations between Russia and Belarus, despite all current possible problems, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.

Eurobsession with Belarus

Published: 20 February, 2009, 20:53


It is a thing of the past when Belarusian authorities’ fond hope was to meet political heavyweights of Europe. Now it is the European politicians who are lining up in queues to visit Belarus and talk to its president.

 
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