A grievance in law: Why would official Minsk invent and institutionalize genocide? Kiryl Kascian On 14 December 2021, the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus adopted the Law [...]
A Game of Thimbles with Polish and Lithuanian Schools in Belarus Kiryl Kascian On 24 August 2021, the website of the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus published [...]
Belarus’s Day of National Unity: a controversial public holiday with a flawed logic Kiryl Kascian On September 17th, Belarus celebrated its so-called “Day of National Unity”, an official holiday created on [...]
Migration crisis presents opportunites for Lithuania’s Orbán admirer Kiryl Kascian and Vitold Jančis The recent migration crisis has brought new issues to Lithuanian politics. Home to the country’s Polish minority, the south-eastern [...]
Constitutional Reform in Belarus: Feasible Changes or an Imitative Process? Hanna Vasilevich In Belarus, President Lukashenka is ostensibly contemplating constitutional reforms demanded by the people, but his actions indicate his intent [...]
Lukashenka’s campaign against Nazism: one must imagine Sisyphus happy Kiryl Kascian On May 14th, Alyaksandr Lukashenka approved a new law on preventing the rehabilitation of Nazism. It quickly became a part [...]
Belarus-Poland relations: minorities caught in-between The Belarusian authorities, in response to recently rising diplomatic tensions with Poland, have initiated repressive legislation which has targeted civil society and protestors. But in [...]
Volodymyr Zelensky has upped the ante in his fight against pro-Russian propaganda. But is his latest move a miscalculation? In February 2021, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky banned three TV channels [...]
Constitutional reform in Belarus: Consolidation or conflict? Hanna Vasilevich The much-debated topic of constitutional reform in Belarus was discussed once again at the All-Belarusian People’s Congress in February. Lukashenka has requested [...]
Are we witnessing the end of ethnic parties in Lithuania? In Lithuania’s recent parliamentary election, the party claiming to represent the interests of Polish and other minorities failed to reach [...]
