Who ate all the Minsk pies?

A US delegation went to Minsk. It gave Lukashenka a photo opportunity, the US something to crow about, and caused a headache for everyone else.

A shortage of potatoes in Belarus is leaving people disgruntled.

A social media influencer interviewed Lukashenka. It was not pretty.

Belarus's dictator hopes next weekend's election will allow him to re-legitimise his grasp on power. Little suggests that will happen.

Anne Applebaum's latest book offers a breezy tour of Dictatorland. And it's a chilling read.

A postscript to my previous post. Plus a comment on a submission to the International Criminal Court about Belarus and Georgia's election.

Interpreting a recent escalation along the Belarus-Ukraine border. Is there anything for Ukraine to worry about?

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has prompted accusations of a curb on free speech. To my mind, the debate should be about privacy.

Belarus is the first European state to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation; Lukashenka's 30 years; and Tsikhanouskaya visits the UK.

The United Kingdom goes to the polls this week. Does the result matter at all for Ukrainians and Belarusians?

Georgian protests, Lord Cameron in Ukraine, a scathing US view of the UK army, Belarusian informants... What caught my attention this week.

Why I changed my mind about the relationship between sport and politics, and (reluctantly) support a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes.

A few remarks on last month's terrorist attack in Moscow. The treatment of the four suspects is part of the brutalisation of Russia.

Both Ukraine and Belarus have long-standing population worries, which the crises of recent years have exacerbated.

A few notes on last weekend's elections in Belarus, and some Belarus-related events I've been involved in this past week.

Belarus hosted a CSTO summit in Minsk last week. Fractures between members of the military bloc are hard to paper over however.

A recent decree will make many Belarusians stateless. The opposition is trying to convince others its New Belarus passport is the solution.

Open Democracy published a ‘rebuttal’ to my recent article for them. I knew that a response was coming and I welcome the challenge to the...

One of the biggest challenges since I started this blog is that there is so much going on in, or otherwise affecting, eastern Europe and...

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries marched on Moscow in late June, and then dramatically backed down, one thing was clear – there was...