"EU makes strategic mistakes" Lukashenko opponent fears imminent entry into war 1/7/2023 1:06 am In Minsk there are increasing signs that Belarus could help the Kremlin in Ukraine. An opposition politician reports that the Russian military presence is constantly growing. Passports would be confiscated, preparations for mobilization had been completed. The Belarusian opposition politician Pavel Latuschka sees preparations for his country's entry into the war on Russia's side. "The census of all conscripts in Belarus is practically complete," said Latuschka,...
ALexandr Lukashenko is dependent on the Russian President to remain in power in Belarus. But he is also experienced in Vladimir Putin's Exposing and exploiting weaknesses. At 68, Lukashenko is two years younger than his Moscow counterpart, but has ruled since 1994, a good six years longer than Putin. On Wednesday, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ODKB) summit in Yerevan provided Lukashenko with another demonstration. The Minsk ruler described the plans of the Belarusian presidency in the defense alliance in...
Watch the video: Putin and Lukashenko want to set up joint troops - stern expert explains the consequences of war.Gernot Kramper (star) But of course an attack from the north would in turn tie up enormous forces in Ukraine. The most vulnerable side of Ukraine would be the land corridor to Poland.Hendrik Holdmann (star) Belarusian dictator Lukashenko recently announced that he intends to set up joint troops with Putin. What does this official entry into the war mean for the...
Svetlana Tichanovskaya, the face of the Belarusian opposition, has been living in exile for two years. A conversation about the price she and her family have to pay - and why she believes in an end to the Lukashenko regime.Interviewed by Joachim Käppner and Sophie KobelA very hot day in Berlin, Svetlana Tichanowskaja takes a deep breath in the cool hotel lobby. She is in town as a guest speaker to commemorate the German resistance to Hitler. The police are...
According to several governments, the migrant and refugee crisis on the borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia is far from over. "This problem will persist for months," said Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on the Polish radio station RMF. In Tallinn, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said after a meeting with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki: "The pressure on our external border will continue because Lukashenko has not yet achieved his goals."The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko told the BBC last...
Autocracies and democracies differ, among other things, in how quickly and consistently they can make decisions. Alexander Lukashenko can pack his human sacrifices in buses at will, chauffeur them at gunpoint from one border crossing to the next or equip them with chainsaws - none of which is a problem for Europe's long-term dictator. The EU, on the other hand, has to extensively check whether its sanctions regime is legally stable, it has to blame airlines and countries of origin...
Status: 09.11.2021 12:51 p.m. Belarus is shifting responsibility for the migration movements towards the Polish border to the EU and especially to Germany. His country has done a lot to open this new route. By Christina Nagel, ARD Studio Moscow More and more migrants are coming. It could be 4,000, estimated a Belarusian reporter on Russian television that evening. Much of what has been going on on the Belarusian-Polish border since yesterday remains unclear, because only a few journalists can...
[ad_1] Status: 07/31/2021 8:27 a.m. The pressure on regime critics in Belarus is growing: one critical medium after another is banned and the employees are put on trial. Authorities are now also taking action against civil society organizations. By Jasper Steinlein, ARD Studio Moscow Being harassed and arrested by the police for doing your job: the Belarusian journalist Oleg Grusdilowitsch is already familiar with this. When he reported live on the protests in Minsk for "Radio Svoboda" in August 2020,...
