Oleksii Kovalenko tried to unravel, what is the best decision for the EU to make – to lift the sanctions, to extend them again, or to tighten the sanction regime against Russia.

This study by EAST Center Research Director Andrei Yeliseyeu shows how the situation with anti-Belarus disinformation and propaganda has changed for the worse in both quantitative and qualitative terms over the last two years.

The paper looks into four important aspects of mobility between Belarus and Poland and demonstrates a manifold increase in flows of temporary laobour migration from Belarus to Poland in the last three years.

A systematic study of Belarusian media landscape, vulnerable groups of population, legal regulations, institutional framework and other aspects of information security in Belarus.

This Andrei Yeliseyeu's research assesses volumes of trade in embargoed products, specifies their fake countries of origin and presents the impact of this phenomenon on Belarus-Russia relations.

A systematic review of the Belarus' economic and political relations with developing countries in 2016. Further stagnation in the diplomatic contacts with developing countries is defined as one of the most important trends.

The article analyses various aspects of mobility including Belarus' unilateral initiatives to ease entry for foreigners since 2014. While Belarus gradually opens up for foreigners on its own terms, two important tools of mobility are either still being negotiated or put on hold.

In 2014 Poland–Belarus relations received a new impetus after three years of having a cold relationship The EAST researcher Andrei Yeliseyeu's report reviews developments in bilateral relations between Poland and Belarus since then.

Lukashenka seeks for an optimal level of repressions, high enough to discourage Belarusians from protesting and low enough for the EU to continue a gradual rapprochement with Minsk.

While the anti-corruption demonstration in Moscow gathered up to 15,000 people, in yet 12 Russian cities at least 1,000 protestors took to the streets

Dates of biggest protests and numbers of protestors across Belarus since mid-February 2017

Moldova is to host 30,000 Syrian refugees, Russian language is banned in Moldovan pharmacies and other eight top fake stories in Moldovan media