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Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Although successive Lithuanian authorities have expressed negative opinions about Lukashenko's regime and supported the opposition in Belarus for years, they have on the other hand criticised the EU's policy of imposing restrictions on…
Analyses |
On 25 October, the EU Council accepted conclusions on situation in Belarus extending the existing ban on entry to EU countries on 41 representatives of the Belarusian government until 31 October 2011. At the same time, the Council once…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Wojciech Konończuk
The most serious crisis in the history of Russian-Belarusian relations has been taking place over the past few months. In 2007 Russia started the process of depriving Belarus of subsidies in the form of supplies of fuels at low prices,…
Analyses |
Ukraine has intensified discussions on the future of gas transit and the modernisation of its gas pipeline network. On 14 October, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov talked with the European Commission about gas cooperation. The Ukrainian…
Analyses |
On 18 October the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, paid a visit to Kyiv. The talks mainly concerned expanding economic cooperation. Ukraine and Venezuela are supposed to prepare a plan for bilateral cooperation which will probably be…
Analyses |
On 16-18 October, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, paid a visit to Minsk during which a contract to deliver Venezuelan crude oil to Belarus over the next three years was signed. The guarantee of an alternative to Russian oil…
Analyses |
The Lithuanian-Belarusian intergovernmental working group developed on 7 October an agreement for the transit of Venezuelan oil to Belarus via the Lithuanian state-owned oil terminal Klaipedos nafta. This is the first effect of the co-…
Analyses |
On 7 and 8 October, the Parliament of Ukraine introduced changes to a range of laws regulating the competences of organs of state to the extent required by the restoration of the 1996 constitution. Parliament also began work on a rapid…
Analyses |
On 9 to 11 September, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus paid a working visit to China, during which a range of bilateral agreements was signed on Chinese loans to Belarus. This visit is another example of Minsk working to obtain…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
There is no doubt that the Constitutional Court’s ruling was made in the interest of President Viktor Yanukovych. The ruling restores the president’s superiority in the political system, as it weakens the government and parliament alike…