Two years ago, millions of Belarusians, tired of the authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko, voted for change. On 9 August 2020, millions of Belarusians went to the polls hoping for change. In many polling stations, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received the majority of votes, but the dictator brutally suppressed
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The invasion of Ukraine horrifies us. Because, like the war in the former Yugoslavia, it is so close: people fleeing and hiding in our regions; petrol and food costs skyrocketing; our armies mobilising. Putin horrifies us, because he is ready for anything: even a thermonuclear war that
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There is a large, forgotten island in the Baltic Sea, so large that it has freshwater rivers flowing into a sea, which is unique because of its mixture of salt and freshwater, bordering nine different countries in the Baltic Sea[1] with a total of 90 million people[2]:
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In three months, four top managers closely associated with Russia’s largest gas company, Gazprom, have died. They died atrociously, often together with their families. This ‘curse’ also affects businessmen from non-oil circles. Is it an unbelievable coincidence of fatal accidents or is there a plan to eliminate
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The 2022 invasion of Ukraine has opened a season of economic sanctions against Russia, the most important of which affect gas and oil exports. Contrary to the West’s hopes, these sanctions are putting the European Union, increasingly divided internally, in dire straits, with galloping inflation and the
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They are mercenaries known for their ferocity and determination. They appear in a conflict, like ghosts, and carry out massacres – only to disappear again. During the invasion of Ukraine, when Putin realised that conscripts were being slaughtered by the Kiev army, he sent them to defend
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For ten days in early January 2022, Kazakhstan was on the brink of civil war. Spontaneous demonstrations over rising fuel costs escalated into urban guerrilla warfare and a military invasion by the armies of neighbouring countries allied to Russia. When they left, after 30 years of absolute
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There are famous oligarchs, protagonists of clashes with the Kremlin, with criminal convictions behind them, and forced to leave Russia to save life and property, such as Roman Abramovic, Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others[1] – men famous for the luxury in which they live
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The red and white flag no longer flies. The cities of Belarus are full of new red-green flags – the symbol of a ‘new’ old government. The protests have calmed down with the arrival of winter, but it only takes a little something to set them off
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This is the sad and disturbing story of a small country, which has been forgotten by progress, and in which few families have used the implosion of the Warsaw Pact to adopt democratic and capitalist systems to become the masters of the country with an autocratic and
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