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| Kamil Kłysiński
All of the demonstrations that took place on were Thursday were entirely peaceful. They took the forms of living ‘solidarity chains’, marches of groups of demonstrators along city streets and pickets in front of detention centres. The…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
More anti-regime demonstrations were seen across the country on 12 August. The protests spilled outside the main protest centres (Minsk, Homel, Hrodna, Vitebsk, Baranovichy, Maladzyechna) to other regional cities and numerous small towns…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
On 7 August the Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban announced the completion of the Ungheni- Chișinău gas pipeline. The new infrastructure, Orban has declared, is intended to enable the delivery of gas from Romania and other places to…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
During the evening and night of 11 August there were repeated post-election protests. Outside Minsk, demonstrations also took place in regional (Hrodna, Brest, Mahiliau) and district cities (including Lida, Baranavichy, Smarhon, Osipovichy…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
During the evening and overnight, more protests numbering at least several thousand people took place in Minsk, dispersed throughout various parts of the city. In some parts of the capital there were serious clashes with law enforcement…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 9 August, the presidential elections in Belarus ended. According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), the turnout was 84.2%. The CEC also announced partial voting results based on the situation at 9am local time. In accordance…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The presidential elections in Belarus scheduled for 9 August are being held in extremely unfavourable conditions for the authorities. The reduction of Russian subsidies related to the dispute between Minsk and Moscow over further…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 15th June Belarus’s central bank placed Belgazprombank (which is 99% owned by Russian shareholders) under temporary forced external supervision. The long-time chairman of the bank’s management board was Viktar Babaryka who is seeking to…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Since 21 May, the electoral committees for candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for 9 August have been collecting the signatures necessary to register formally. In Minsk, as well as in most large and medium-sized Belarusian…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś, Kamil Kłysiński
On 15 May, Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makey announced that the US would start supplying Belarus with oil, with the first delivery to be made in June to the port in Klaipeda (Argus reports that this will be 90,000 tonnes) and then unloaded…