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How has Russia’s war on Ukraine been received in Belarus? What organizational methods is the Belarusian left using under conditions of total control? In this report Belarusian activists analyse the situation in the country
A general overview of the situation
The key event in the social and (...)
The Belarusian regime is threatening “railway partisans”, arrested for sabotaging signalling equipment to disrupt the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the death sentence.
Criminal investigators have passed a file on the first three cases – Dzmitry Ravich, Dzianis Dzikun and Aleh Malchanau of (...)
For months, Belarusian activists have been damaging railroads to hinder Russia’s army. Now they could face the death penalty.
In May 2022, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law making any attempt to commit a terrorist attack punishable by death — and terrorism is exactly the (...)
Three Belarusians are about to go on trial, with the Belarusian Investigative Committee having already labelled them ‘traitors’ and threatened the death penalty. The three men are all recognized political prisoners who may very well have taken part in the courageous actions which helped Russia (...)
Opponents of the Lukashenka regime can now be threatened with the death penalty, including for ‘attempted terrorism’
A campaign of mass political repression has been going on in Belarus for almost two years now. The scale is unprecedented: there are now more than 1,200 political prisoners, and (...)
Dear compatriots, dear workers !
Russia’s war against Ukraine has been going on for over a month. Since the beginning of the war, Belarus has sided with Russia. Its troops are entering Ukraine from our territory, rockets are being launched, planes are taking off. And the more Belarus gets (...)
Some trade unionists are in the KGB pre-trial detention centre, others are under a non-disclosure agreement. Bukhvostov, 80 years old, president of the Belarusian Free Trade Union SPB is in hospital.
According to preliminary, and perhaps incomplete, data, by the evening of 22 April, 19 (...)
21 September, 2021. The pressure on IndustriALL affiliate Belarusian Independent Trade Union has dramatically increased in the last days. Union leaders and activists have been arrested, fined, and their homes have been searched.
Today in Navapolatsk, the house of Volha Brytsikava, local BITU (...)
The repression against the free trade unions in Belarus has escalated seriously. Today, 19th of April the leadership of the confederation Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Union (BKDP) has been arrested: At least 13 are in detention, including President Aliaksandr Yarashuk and (...)
In the aftermath of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Executive Committee of the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus stated: “We wish to assure you, dear Ukrainians, that the vast majority of Belarusians, including workers, condemn the reckless actions of the present (...)
Former employees arrested for ‘extremist activities’, fuelling fears for conservationists’ safety and the future of protected areas
One of the oldest and largest wildlife NGOs in Belarus is being forced to shut down after accusations of “extremist activities”, as conservationists warn of (...)
Chatham House published results of their online surveys on Belarus’s participation in Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Without having access to the raw data and without being able to cross-tabulate, I can assume the following. The public opinion is pretty fragmented. There is a core (appr. 1/3) of (...)
The ILO Committee of Experts calls on the government of Belarus to restore the rights and freedoms of workers without delay. It urges the government to take measures for the release of all trade unionists who remain in detention and for dropping of all charges related to participation in (...)
I am requesting you to support our campaign “No Means No”, dedicated to reducing the number of Belarusian soldiers sent by the regime of Alexander Lukashenka to fight on the side of Russia in the war in Ukraine.
Today a mass mobilization of Belarusian men in the age from 18 to 58 to the Belarusian army is under way: draft notices are arriving, instructing men to appear for service on March 4-9, 2022. According to an unconfirmed report received from sources inside the Belarussian armed (...)
To the West, Lukashenka hopes to appear impartial; to Putin, he hopes to appear a loyal ally. Juggling both is backfiring
It was at the end of November last year that Lukashenka first publicly announced he would take Russia’s side in the event of war with Ukraine. For several months, his (...)
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a special military operation aimed at demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. The world community qualifies Russia’s military actions against Ukraine as a war. Several days of combat have shown that the war brings nothing but military (...)
No nation in the world wants war. The Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples are no exception. Few peoples in the world have suffered such terrible losses and sacrificed the lives of tens of millions of their citizens in their history as our three peoples did, peoples who are so close to (...)
“ Unprecedented and unacceptable - Some have called the Belarusian act state terrorism ; we agree. But many other states have resorted or still resort to terrorist practices.”
“Unprecedented and unacceptabl” This is how the European Union described the hijacking by Belarus of the Ryanair plane to (...)
The Belarusian authorities are ruthlessly targeting independent trade unions which received this year’s Arthur Svensson Prize. The authorities are trampling on labour rights as part of their brutal crackdown on the protest movement. In a new briefing, Amnesty International highlights the (...)
“After all, there is only one sure path for the radical left: to prepare for a new protest mobilization and to fight to preserve its parties, trade unions and the self-organizing bodies of popular power.”
In 1991, after the collapse of the bureaucratic model of “socialism” in the Soviet Union and (...)
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