This very sensitive issue is about much more than just historical justice like PiS misleadingly presents everything as and is actually motivated by the dual desires to revise one of World War II’s outcomes (or perhaps even some with respect to its eastern border too) in parallel with revising the current EU status quo. Polish…
The indisputable fact is that Poland has been systematically destroying legally protected monuments to the same army that stopped Nazi Germany’s genocide of 6 million Poles while Belarus only reportedly demolished an unofficial to a group that it regards as terrorists. Polish diplomats are incredibly upset after Belarus reportedly demolished an unofficial memorial that supposedly…
Belarus since Monday, in response to the blocking of the transit of potash fertiliser through the Baltic port of Klaipėda, lowered the barrier against trains with Lithuanian petroleum products and fertilizers, especially those going to Ukraine. For several days now, economists and policymakers in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius have been counting possible economic losses…
Research into this subject reveals that it’s among the country’s top foreign policy priorities even though its ‘democratic security’ policy has yet to be articulated, let alone acknowledged. The five examined case studies show that Russia’s stance has evolved with time and aligns with the particular circumstances in which each scenario is unfolding. The Hybrid…
Lukashenko’s proposal should hopefully prompt NATO to finally pay attention to Russia’s legitimate security concerns. The bloc cannot continue expanding eastward in violation of the oral obligations that it made to Moscow at the end of the Old Cold War not to advance past the then-recently reunified German frontier. Belarusian President Lukashenko earlier said that…
Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments. They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions. They can also be manufactured by the refusal of governments to accept those seeking asylum, sanctuary and refuge. The latter is very much in evidence in Europe: governments of the European Union are staring down desperate humans…
