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Belarus's political prisoners need help and so does its economy. The international community can help both. Novopolotsk is a provincial town in northern Belarus that strikes...

The EU's challenge in Belarus is now to help avert a Cuban scenario. On 19 December, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made a conscious decision to end two or three years of...

Simply isolating Belarus is unlikely to change anything for the better. Much ink has been spilled by journalists and commentators describing the disappointing course of...

Ashton urges Belarus to release political prisoners, while diplomats say additional measures will follow. The European Union is to impose a sweeping travel ban against the...

The EU was right to offer incentives to Lukashenka, but now that has to change. Alyaksandr Lukashenka's crackdown on political opponents following December's presidential...

Dozens of officials ‘were involved in election fraud', while Only the release of political prisoners will end ban. The European Union will shortly impose a travel ban on...

Parliament's president seeks to maintain pressure on Alyaksandr Lukashenka after repression of opposition politicians. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European...

Brutal crackdown against opposition figures after Lukashenka “re-elected” president . Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has condemned a violent crackdown...

Yaraslau Ramanchuk's economic ideas have had a big impact in Belarus. Issues such as democracy, national identity and geopolitics have for years served as the principal...

The visit to Minsk by the foreign ministers of Poland and Belarus raises hopes that the EU may find a successful policy toward Belarus. Now, consistency is needed. Last...

Russia has made clear that it wants Alyaksandr Lukashenka unseated as Belarus's president. December's elections are now crucial and unpredictable. Suddenly, in the eyes of...

In targeting ethnic Poles, the Belarusian authorities are testing how far they can go before the EU takes a tougher line. When the Belarusian authorities launched an...

Should Belarus's strongman really be allowed to enter the EU? On 16 September, I was sitting in a tiny café in Vilnius with journalist-friends who had travelled from...

The foreign ministers of Italy and Lithuania argue that the anomaly of Belarus's self-isolation may slowly be ending. Can Belarus, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin...

Russia wants to remove Alyaksandr Lukashenka as Belarus's president. Belarus had been through numerous economic wars with Russia before, but once the Kremlin sent its Chief...

The EU has relaxed its approach to Belarus, but the country remains a very difficult neighbour. Belarus is an awkward neighbour for the European Union. It is the only...

The EU is right to engage with Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the president of Belarus, but it needs to enforce its conditions to achieve progress. Javier Solana's visit to Minsk on...

It is not wholly wrong that Belarus's president has been given the amber light for closer EU links, but it is premature. So long as Belarus does not give diplomatic...

Fighting spirit of his grandfathers helps stoke the much-harassed opposition leader's effort to maintain a democratic spirit in Belarus. Alyaksandr Milinkevich cannot...

Belarusian leader free to travel to the EU; some of his officials remain barred. EU foreign ministers today decided to suspend for six months the travel ban imposed on...