#Belarus

Temur Umarov 马铁木

TUmarov

1/9 In Belarus, China is neither at odds with Russia nor wedded to Alexander Lukashenko. As unrest spreads following last month’s presidential election, there is little reason to expect

Alex

JewishWonk

We left Belarus as stateless refugees. Years after we left, the Lukashenko regime put in place restrictions that made it challenging for us to ever return. For most of my

Jakub Jakóbowski

J_Jakobowski

Belarus is one of Beijing's closest partners in Eastern Europe, and an important BRI experiment. The ongoing crumbling of Lukashenko's regime is a big test for Beijing's stretegic ambitions in

Nathan Law 羅冠聰

nathanlawkc

THREAD:1/5 From #Belarus, #HongKong, to #Thailand - the masses have been thrust to the forefront of a global struggle against the surging offence on our values of freedom and liberty.#FreeBelarus#StandwithThailand#HKerswithyou

Janek Lasocki

JanekLasocki

1/ This Christmas+New Year take a moment to think of the 159 Belarusian political prisoners who remain behind bars. Their crime: trying this year to peacefully stand up to an

Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, FACEP

NickSawyerMD

Yesterday, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee released its 5th and final report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. 1/6 Donald Trump, Roger Stone & Paul Manafort worked

Ivan Nechepurenko

INechepurenko

I spoke to former high-ranking Belarusian prosecutors, investigators, judges, lawyers, ministers and other officials to describe the insidious machine of repression that sustains Lukashenko's rule in Belarus despite mass and

Janek Lasocki

JanekLasocki

1/ In every place in #Belarus where thousands are turning out to see opposition candidate Sviatlana #Tsikhanouskaya one song is played each time: Разбуры турмы муры (Break down the prison

Esha K.

eshaLegal

"Pro-Democracy" candidate from Hong Kong shares this photo about Belarus on her Facebook. Joshua Wong apparently supports "Belarus" Xenophobia and racism... The people behind this Facebook page are Ukrainians who

Sasha de Vogel

sashadevo

I’ve seen a few tweets framing protest in Belarus as a the end of a post-Soviet social contract where people gave up democratic representation for the stability of authoritarianism. People

Jean Mackenzie

jeanmackenzie

[THREAD] Here are some reflections from my time in Belarus.1) People say don’t fear the regime in the way they used to. So many people told me they'd become so

пигманович

lincolnpigman

Maria Kolesnikova, the Tsepkalo and Tikhanovskaya ally who remains in Belarus, has criticized the EU’s planned sanctions against Minsk as premature, warning that the penalties may make a dialogue with

Thomas van Linge

ThomasVLinge

It's election day in #Belarus and long lines are present outside voting boots throughout the country.Internet has been disrupted all the day, there is a fear of voter fraud in

Ant Breach

AntBreach

https://twitter.com/felix_light/status/1286353298421944320 It was a similar mass mobilisation of ordinary people in cities and towns across Ukraine (including Donbas and Crimea) in the winter of 2013/14 that turned Kyiv's protest on

Vlad Lupan

VladLupan

After #Belarus a number of other important elections are held in Eastern Europe and Caucasus. #Ukraine had it's local elections, #Georgia parliamentary & #Moldova has Presidential elections today. @ecfr 's

Adam Casey

adam_e_casey

A quick thread with some of my thoughts on how we might understand what is going on in Belarus I provided today on a #flashpoint panel at @umichWCED /1 Lukashenka's

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