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This reconstruction of Europe's lost political maps is a treat, and not just for connoisseurs of the obscure. That history is written by the winners is bad enough. But for...

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...

The EU will be sending out dangerous signals if it fails to take action following December's rigged election. The post-election crackdown in Belarus is a bleeding wound in...

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...

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...

A guide to Eastern Europe's most tedious arguments, complete with tortured facts, rage, arguments and syntax. Last week's column dealt with the arcane name squabble between...

Belarus wants to develop relations with the EU, but the Union does not always respond in the right way. I write in response to an article you published on Belarus, “A...

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...

No agreement yet on invitation to president of Belarus to attend the launch of the EU's eastern partnership. European Union member states have failed to agree whether...

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...

The EU will raise the issue of Belarus' “disappointing” parliamentary election at the first high-level meeting in two years. The European Commission has confirmed that...

The slow evolution under way in Belarus may strike chords with old Franco-watchers. When, in November 2006, the EU set out 12 demands that Belarus should meet in the fields...

The Belarusian ambassador to Belgium insists that his country is a modern society and a friend to both its eastern and western neighbours. In the article ‘Playing into...

The EU lacks a unified approach and shows few signs of using what leverage it has against Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship. The Americans call it “Europe's last...