The Kremlin will continue destabilizing Ukraine with disinformation

Oleksii Kovalenko looks into the question, what Kremlin attempts to achieve by directing at least a third of its disinformation machine’s capacities against Ukraine, and how Kremlin’s destabilizing attacks changed over the last five years.
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EU sanctions against Russia: Uneven future of the pro-Russian sentiments

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.
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Fundamental Shifts in Anti-Belarusian Disinformation and Propaganda: Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Changes

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.
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Migration between Belarus and Poland: Current Trends and Prospects

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.
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Belarus’ Vulnerabilities and Resilience to Foreign-Backed Disinformation Warfare

A systematic study of Belarusian media landscape, vulnerable groups of population, legal regulations, institutional framework and other aspects of information security in Belarus.
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Belarusian shrimps anyone? How EU food products make their way to Russia through 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.
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Belarus’ re-export of banned Western food to Russia: Effects for the Eurasian Economic Union

Russia attmpted to use the Eurasian Economic Union mechanisms repeatedly in order to impose a more efficient system of control over re-exported food on the EAEU countries, but largely without success.
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Relations between Belarus and developing countries in 2016: Logical stagnation

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.
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Better mobility between the EU and Belarus: Slow but incremental progress

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.
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The Poland–Belarus Relationship: Geopolitics Gave New Impetus,  but no Breakthrough

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.
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Belarus’ measured repressions

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.
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Anti-Belarus disinformation campaign in Russian media: Trends, features, countermeasures

This paper sums up an enduring monitoring and analysis of the Russian media Belarus-related content by the EAST Center in August – November 2016.
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Eurasian States in Transition