Lukashenko

About 70 kilometers from the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine, you can reach the Belarusian border. I was on that border in June, in the days of a recent verbal escalation between Kyiv and Minsk over hidden relay stations suspected of providing…

In the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s current showdown with the West, this time over whether Ukraine poses a threat to Russia or if it will in the future, Alexander Lukashenka’s artificial border-migrant crisis with the European Union is…

What should be done with the semi-democratic, post-Soviet countries at the eastern borders? The question has haunted the EU for the last ten years, after its enlargement to ten new members in 2004. The European Neighbourhood Policy, with…

After more than three weeks of mass protests against his sixth re-election, it is already clear that Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has been President of Belarus for more than 26 years, lost the political battle over the country’s future. After…