Belarus has never had anything resembling the number of migrants it has recently experienced. Over the past 12 months the Belarusian population, thanks to the 100,000 refugees from the Donbas, has increased by 1%. Indeed, Belarus has more Ukrainian migrants per capita than any other country. read more

Kyrgyzstan has become a full-fledged member of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EES) after it formally abolished customs controls along its border with Kazakhstan. read more

For many foreigners the Latinised spellings for Belarusian places and names continue to present real difficulties or just appear unpronounceable. read more

On August 6th, Lukashenka gave an interview to representatives of three independent media organisations – the largest business information web portal TUT.by and two radio projects - Radio Liberty and European Radio for Belarus. The interview’s main message was that Belarusian policy would not read more

In July, Belarus launched a diplomatic offensive to build ties with regional superpowers like China, India and Brazil seeking to counterbalance the much-publicised overtures its has been making to the West. read more

Two weeks ago, Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Aliaksandr Hurjanau declared Belarus was planning to finish all of the necessary technical work for the country’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in one year's time. However, exactly three years ago he also projected that Belarus read more

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has said that Russia would never go to war with Belarus, but warned that if such a conflict were to erupt, "we would fight for every piece of land." read more

Some say that individual entrepreneurs have a mentality from the 1990s. We will tell you a story of an entrepreneur who is very up to date. In the 1990s Larisa Smirnova started from selling bundles of dill in suburban trains, and today she runs a gift shop in Baranavichy and has an established read more

This month, the Belarusian Ministry of Finance will issue bonds for $425.8 million to bail out Gomselmash (abbreviation for Homiel Rural Machine Building), the most important industrial holding company of the second largest city in the country. The large cost of issue reflects the size of read more

On 2 July Belarus witnessed a rather unusual show – 200 Chinese workers marched dozens of kilometres towards the city of Homiel in protest against wage arrears and poor working conditions. These foreign workers are currently employed by the Chinese company Siuan Yuan which is building a paper read more

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Two months ago dozens of prominent Belarusian intellectuals and civil society leaders called for the establishment of a Belarusian national university. This push followed realisation by leaders of Belarusian civil society that they were powerless to influence the election of the rector of the read more