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.
A systematic study of Belarusian media landscape, vulnerable groups of population, legal regulations, institutional framework and other aspects of information security in 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continuing tensions with Russia, Lukashenka does it best in measuring an optimal level of repressions, high enough to discourage Belarusians from continuing protests and low enough for the EU to continue a gradual rapprochement with Minsk.
This is the first issue of the EAST Media Review authored by EAST research fellows Andrei Yeliseyeu and Veranika Laputska. It sums up an enduring monitoring and analysis of the Russian media Belarus-related content by the EAST Center in August – November 2016.