EU sanctions against Russia: Uneven future of the pro-Russian sentiments
November 28, 2019
“The EU sanctions against Russia are likely to be prolonged at the European Council meeting in December,” Radio Liberty reporter Rikard Jozwiak tweeted in early November. Predictions like this hit the headlines of international media almost on a daily basis. 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.
Fundamental Shifts in Anti-Belarusian Disinformation and Propaganda: Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Changes
April 17, 2019
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.
Migration between Belarus and Poland: Current Trends and Prospects
This brief paper looks into four important aspects of mobility between Belarus and Poland. These are short-term travel for non-employment matters, temporary labour migration, long-term travel arrangements including the Polish Cards, and the present state of art with a bilateral local border traffic regime.
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.
Belarusian shrimps anyone? How EU food products make their way to Russia through Belarus
This paper assesses volumes of Belarus-Russia trade in Western embargoed products and specifies their fake countries of origin. Furthermore, it presents the impact of this phenomenon on Belarus-Russia relations and developments within the Eurasian Economic Union.
Belarus’ re-export of banned Western food to Russia: Effects for the Eurasian Economic Union
Trade sanctions against third countries inevitably bring a challenge of controlling the flows of goods through other member states of the customs union. As the Eurasian Economic Union members (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan) did not follow the Russian decision to ban food imports from western countries, this challenge became a painful reality for Russia.
Relations between Belarus and developing countries in 2016: Logical stagnation
For the fifth successive year, EAST research fellow Andrei Yeliseyeu publishes a review of the Belarus’ economic and political relations with developing countries for the annual Belarusian Yearbook. The year 2016 saw a downturn in Belarus’ diplomatic contacts with developing countries in comparison with the previous year, although they were on an upswing in 2011-2014.
Better mobility between the EU and Belarus: Slow but incremental progress
Analysis of various aspects of mobility between the EU and Belarus by EAST Center research fellow Andrei Yeliseyeu is published in the Issue 32 of Belarus-Analysen. This edition contains a lot of tables and infographics on the issue of mobility between the EU and Belarus.
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. Since then there has been an unprecedented rise in political contacts between the two countries. This EAST researcher Andrei Yeliseyeu’s report reviews recent developments in bilateral relations between Poland and Belarus.
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