June 10th, 5 PM Minsk time (4 PM CET) Pre-registration is required for access, details below. 10 years ago a prominent Belarusian political scientist Vitaly Silitski passed away. He was the author of the concepts of preventive authoritarianism and the authoritarian international as well as the first director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS).
Usurper Lukashenka has mentioned the need to write a new chapter of independent Belarus .
The metaphor is interesting and meaningful. However, it does not play in the hands of the man with blue fingers ,
Yuri Pshennik writes in the article of Nashe Mneniye.
The fact is that the people turned the page as early as August 9, 2020 - they clearly and unambiguously expressed their will. One can firmly state the people of Belarus started a new chapter in the country s history at that very time. Only the authorities of that time and the author of the page metaphor were categorically not satisfied with it. They are clinging to the old. They do not want to write a new chapter and block the transition to a new and civilized Belarus.
Belarus has all the conditions for a change of power.
The events after 9 August 2020 have become a turning point in the modern history of Belarus. They have irrevocably changed the country. It is high time to sum up the first results of these events, the most important ones. How is this year so fundamentally different from the others?
The differences are fundamental. Today we observe many things that we did not see before.
In one phrase, today Belarus has almost everything to continue existing and even to start developing normally after the inevitable resignation of the previous, outmoded authorities.
It is worthwhile to consider this question in details, as the previous government was outmoded both in the distant past and in 2010. What is the difference? However, back then, for example, there were no such clear, more intelligent and effective alternatives. No, there have always been intelligent and forward-thinking people in the opposition, but they missed such organisation an