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 European Commission and Estonian MFA ready for cooperation and support 06/15/2008 - 15:54The European Community supports the ideas and actions taken by «The Third Way», as well as by the newly established in March 2008 Congress of the New Belarusian Diaspora in Europe and the US. This position is confirmed in the letters that we have recently received from Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External Relations, and Urmas Paet, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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 Columbian bustup: reasons and consequence 06/05/2008 - 22:40 / Pavel Marozau / Yuri Kozhuro Any scandal around Lukashenko serves for the benefit of Russia. Untill Lukashenko is in power, russian government is much easier to have comparatively positive image communicating with western countries. They say, look what is happening in Belarus... Externally, practically, Russia has always kept distance from inadequate behavior of “batka“ and continue to do that.
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 What The USSR Was? 03/26/2008 - 02:50 / The Penguin MagazineThe USSR started its life as a violent, cruel and insidious criminal and ended it as a helpless and malicious half-wit. It would have reached 85 on 30 December, 2007. Happily, it didn’t… A whole generation that hadn’t lived in the USSR has already grown up. And now people once again hear the propaganda about what wonderful the Soviet state was.
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 Third Way’s Statement on the Status of Belarusian and Russian Languages, and National Symbolic in Belarus 10/22/2007 - 16:52 / Third WayWe stand for the total support of gradual nonviolent spreading of Belarusian language as a language of Belarusian higher education institutes and educational elite, and finally as the dominant language of communication in Belarus. At the same time, we clearly understand that Russian language is a language of everyday and business life for millions of Belarusians and stand for its preservation as a special status language (but not state status) and we are against any forms of discrimination of its speakers in the country.
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 Third Way's Statement on Vision of Belarus' Foreign Policy 10/17/2007 - 20:00Belarus is a neutral state, whose sovereignty and safety are secured by guarantees and economic interests of the leading countries of the world (US, Russia, EU) and mutually beneficial friendly relations with all the neighboring countries (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Baltic countries).
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 Give Lukashenka His Own LuNet! 10/02/2007 - 23:29 / Sami Ben GharbiaThe use of the Internet is already restricted in Belarus. According to the OpenNet Initiative report on internet filtering in Belarus, most cybercafés require users to show identification and keep the logs of their online activity. In reaction to Lukashenko’s comments, Belarusian activists from the online community “Third Way” have joined forces and launched the LuNet campaign to raise awareness about the threats to the online free speech that a new media law presently in the works could represent. The LuNet campaign comprises the following: the LuTube video-sharing website, LuJournal blogging platform, Lundex search engine, and a web portal tut.lu.
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Freeing Theater in Belarus 09/12/2007 - 23:44 / Eric KelseyWhen Belarussian police crashed the latest premiere at the Free Theater three weeks ago, company founder Nikolai Khalezin didn't, at first, consider the raid out of the ordinary; the police had disrupted the company's performances before. This time, though, 50 people present, including the actors and audience members, were taken into custody. "Police used to burst into our performances with machine guns but they disappeared just as fast, "Khalezin told Ingo Petz of Germany's Suddeutche Zeitung. "A mass arrest like this is a first."
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 Belarusian KGB Awaits Changes 08/16/2007 - 21:14 / Valery Kot, Andrei Abozau Despite the fact that the appointment of Yury Zhadobin as the head of Belarusian KGB promised staff changes in KGB, no significant changes have taken place after a month in the office.
It allows to conclude that, being a prudent man, Mr. Zhadobin is in no rush to have large scale changes. He is looking around the “household” left by his predecessor. It is notable that during the two and a half years of Stiapan Sukharenka’s office this “household” raised to the height unmatched by any director during Lukashenka’s rule.
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 EU Calls on Russia, Belarus to Solve Gas Dispute 08/03/2007 - 00:24 / http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2717241,00.htmlThe European Commission on Wednesday urged Russia and Belarus to seek an amicable solution to their latest dispute over energy supplies, which could also affect gas deliveries to western Europe. The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said it would reduce gas supplies to its neighbor by 45 percent beginning on Friday due to outstanding Belarusian debt after a doubling of gas prices had caused Minsk to fall $456 million (333 million euros) behind on its payments in recent months.
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 A Loan from Russia: Unveiling the Likely Rationale 07/18/2007 - 01:24 / BISS
Does the application for the Russia’s loan prove that the Belarusian economy is falling apart? Does it make Belarus vulnerable to some loss of its sovereignty? Not very likely, say the BISS experts. The possible provision of a two billion loan by the Russian government seems not to endanger the Belarusian economy (given the current volume of the country’s foreign indebtedness). Moreover, the political side of this issue could also be managed rather unproblematically by the government of Belarus.
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