government officials have declared that they will support the demand of the opposition party for a re-election. The European Union, on the other hand, is planning to impose sanctions on Belarussian government officials.Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press...
Belarus has been under Western sanctions for years over alleged human rights violations. One of Russia’s closest allies, the country has also faced harsh new restrictions imposed by the US and EU over the Ukraine conflict. While Belarus is not directly involved in fighting, Minsk allowed Moscow...
Russia, Belarus and the ROK swiftly delivered badly needed medical supplies to Wuhan through chartered flights. Pakistan, our iron-clad brother, sent us virtually all the masks in its stock. At the peak of the outbreak, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia paid a special visit to Beijing to o...
Belarus declared Nexta a "terrorist organisation" last year. The circumstances of Protasevich's arrest in May 2021 prompted international outrage and triggered European Union sanctions against Lukashenko. He had been flying from Greece to Lithuania when Belarusian air traffic control...
As of July 20, the IOC said there were 15 individual athletes from Russia and 18 from Belarus among the thousands of athletes who have qualified from around the world. Only about 60 athletes from the two nations had been invited under the new, strict standards. ...
both China and Russia have been targeted by U.S.-sponsored riots in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Ukraine, and Belarus to name a few. U.S.-led hostilities have also come in the form of economic sanctions. China and Russia have responded to U.S. a...
Another key aspect is the development of the North-South International Transport Corridor. The construction of the Rasht-Astara railway line is a crucial component of this project, linking the logistics networks of Russia and Belarus with Iran’s ports in the Persian Gulf. This initiative will not...
It is better to refer to the official United States Treasury website for the most up-to-date information on nations affected by trade and financial sanctions. As of the current information, the following countries are subject to sanctions: Afghanistan Balkans Belarus Burma Central African Republic ...
His regime is hard to categorize, analysts say. It is not as repressive as Aleksander Lukashenko’s Belarus, but neither as permissive as Viktor Orban’s Hungary. Ivana Stradner, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said Vucic has “made Serbia what Russia was like in...
It also funded many "independent media." According to the NED website, between 2016 and 2020, the NED funded 119 projects in Belarus under the category of "Freedom of Information," spending an average of 50,000 dollars on each project. This particular category received more funding than any...