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Monday, 15. August 2011  0 comment(s) |
 Anaïs Marin
Researcher - The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme Belarus: the silenced revolutionThe street protests that agitated Belarus in June-July failed to evolve into a massive popular uprising. Even if the “clapping revolution” fell apart, Lukashenka’s authoritarian regime won but one round in its fight for survival. |
| Thursday, 28. April 2011 0 comment(s) |
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Anaïs Marin
Researcher - The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme 
Top pictures: the photofits of the two suspects released by the Belarusian KGB on 12 April (www.kgb.by/press/inform/205.html)Bottom pictures: a caricature of the latter, circulated on the Russian-speaking blogosphere (http://besttoday.ru/postimage/2/) The closed society and its enemies: conspiracy theories made in BelarusIn the absence of clear motives and a known mastermind, the 11 April blast in the Minsk metro, labelled as a terrorist attack by the authorities, bred numerous conspiracy theories. This trend tells a lot about the climate of doubt and uncertainty now prevailing in Belarus. |
| Thursday, 3. February 2011 1 comment(s) |
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Anaïs Marin
Researcher - The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme 
A ballot box in Brest, Belarus, 19 December 2010. Picture: Anaïs MarinSo powerless faced with post-election deadlocksThe past months saw the international community helpless to solve the power confiscation crisis in Ivory Coast and unable to obstruct the fraudulent re-election of a dictator in Belarus. Should we infer from these drawbacks that interference is passé? |