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Dancing Around Dictatorship 04/12/2008 - 00:40 / The Prague WandererIn the middle of the documentary “Belarusian Waltz,” director Andrzej Fidyk moves the camera from his hero, Alexander Pushkin, to his wife. She smiles sweetly and recites a popular joke: A Belarusian man is hanged, and his body is left dangling from the noose for two days, until officials take him down and lay him on the grass. The man comes to and starts coughing. The shocked officials ask him, "How is it possible?" The man replies, "You know, it was hard – but I got used to it."
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Dark Dance 04/11/2008 - 00:42 / EconomistAmerica calls it the “last dictatorship in Europe”. It has political prisoners, police crackdowns, state-run media and a security service called the KGB. So Belarus's image could do with polishing. Its irascible president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, seems to accept this: Tim Bell, one of Britain's top public-relations men, was recently seen in Minsk, where he was in talks about a consultancy contract. As a Tory spin-doctor, he helped turn Margaret Thatcher into an election-winner. As Lord Bell he represents rich eastern Europeans such as Boris Berezovsky, an émigré Russian oligarch.
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Belarus: Political Draft 04/10/2008 - 17:35 / ISN Security WatchNATO should respond forcefully to Belarus over indications of a new trend to use the military draft for political ends, Jeremy Druker comments for ISN Security Watch.
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Why Does Lord Bell Refuse to Comment on Events That Took Place on March 25 and 27? 04/04/2008 - 01:12 / European Radio for BelarusHuman rights defenders are joking when they say that searches in offices of journalists and the dispersal of the demonstration on March 25 were “the results of the work of lord Bell in action”, the European Union calls the events “a display of dictatorship” while senator Charhinets says they were “a journalists’ dictatorship of the rules of the game”. At the same time, lord Bell, who has recently been announced responsible for the foreign image of Belarus, suddenly disappeared from his office after having given the comment he had promised to ERB.
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 Bellicosity in Belarus 03/10/2008 - 18:08 / The Washington TimesThe recent arrest of Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, deputy editor-in-chief of Zhoda newspaper in Belarus, should not surprise anyone familiar with this black hole of a European country. His crime? Reprinting Muhammad cartoons that appeared in a Danish newspaper two years ago and which were copied from a Web site. The editor, accused of inciting ethnic and religious enmity was sentenced to five years in prison.
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Mr. "President" Where's The Money? (or Is Belarus Becoming a New European Zimbabwe?) 11/11/2007 - 04:09 / American ChronicleIn 1994 one of the basic items of an electoral program of Alexandr Lukashenko was "indemnification of the lost monetary contributions of the population at the rate of Rouble-Dollar for 1985" (that is when 1 Soviet Rouble was 1 US dollar). Back in 1998 when Lukashenko already became the President of Belarus, a Special President's Decree has been published according to which all indemnifications should be paid by January, 1st 2008.
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Belarus: Turning The Opposition Into Dissidents 09/13/2007 - 21:45 / Radio Free EuropeA recent wave of arrests of youth activists in Belarus clearly testifies to the sad reality that the Belarusian authorities do not intend to democratize public life. But the arrests also show that, following the hotly contested presidential election in March 2006, the ruling regime has considerably marginalized and alienated its opponents. Now Belarusian opposition activists appear to resemble Soviet-era dissidents, rather than competitors in a race for power.
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United Democratic Forces Congress Passed. What Is to Follow? 05/28/2007 - 17:25 / Charter9726-27 May the Congress of Democratic Forces was held in Minsk. The Congress delegates adopted by the majority vote the strategy of actions of the united democratic forces (UDF) suggested by the Political Council of UDF. The strategy assumes a “constructive dialogue with the authorities”. Its authors remark that” through talks it is possible to achieve consolidation of all safe and sound forces of the Belarusian society necessary for preservation of the social peace and solution of the problems facing the country”. “The condition proving the authorities’ readiness for mutual cooperation with the democratic forces is the release of all the political prisoners”, the document runs.
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Merchants of Freedom 07/14/2007 - 00:12 / TOL BLOG Street vendors may succeed where international pressure has failed in Belarus, but they need support.
Belarusians have endured a decade of sham elections, a bogus plebiscite extending their president's power, and a command economy so corrupt that the World Bank ranks Belarus among the worst places to do business.
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