This report analyses the content and efficiency of official communication on COVID-19 related issues in Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine. It also pays attention to pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives concerning COVID-19 in each of the three countries.

The different responses to the first wave of COVID-19 in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine between March and June 2020 largely reflected the political regime, economic structure and social conditions in each country, Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina and Oleksii Kovalenko explain in their research

A new study by Aliaksandr Aleshka explores propaganda narratives of Sputnik Polska based on the systematic monitoring of materials published from June 2019 to May 2020. Sputnik Polska, established inearly 2015, is a part of Sputnik, a Russian news agency and radio broadcaster which pu

Тенденция перехода жителей Беларуси в онлайн для работы, учебы и развлекательных видов деятельности ускорилась в последние месяцы в связи с коронавирусной эпидемией. По этой причине приобретает актуальность вопрос, каким образом белорусские неправительственные организации (НПО) могут

In this report Andrei Yeliseyeu analyzes Belarus’s pre-election campaign period, Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s election campaign and his domestic political priorities, and examines Belarus’s political regime transformation towards personalist military rule. The study also

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), an organization for regional economic integration between five post-Soviet states, marked its fifth anniversary on January 1, 2020. Its founding treaty, signed first by Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, then followed by Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, celebr

As Oleksii Kovalenko and Eka Maghaldadze argue, one thing is already clear: Some central and eastern European rulers are seeing the pandemic as a perfect pretext to silence critical voices and consolidate their power.

Прогнозные сценарии и анализ стратегий борьбы с коронавирусом указывают, что задержка с реализацией действенных мер неминуемо приведет к меньшему количеству спасенных жизней.

Are so-called “multi-vector” strategies in post-Soviet Eurasia coming to their end? Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina and Paul Hansbury argue that the opposite may be the case.

A new study by Andrei Yeliseyeu explores propagandistic narratives of Sputnik Belarus and methods of its promotion based on systematic monitoring of content published by Russian-language Sputnik Belarus webpage in 2019. 

A new Andrei Yeliseyeu's study explores the barriers to youth engagement and offers a set of recommendations to improve it, based on deep interviews with youth activists and focus groups with youth representatives.

This study by Andrei Yeliseyeu gives an overview of CSOs’ activities in Belarus and the latest trends in various aspects of CSOs’ functioning.