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In 2007, the administration of George W. Bush reacted to human rights violations in Belarus by imposing sanctions against the Belneftekhim concern and certain oil and chemical enterprises. Five years ago, under Barack Obama, after the release of political prisoners, the sanctions were suspended. Today, within the framework of coercion into dialogue and as a reaction to the total repression that opponents of the Lukashenka regime are again subjected to, the Joe Biden administration threatens to return sanctions. This time their consequences may turn out to be much more severe for the Belarusian economy. The newspaper Belarusians and Market studied why the American restrictions are so serious and how they can affect the gross-forming sectors of the national economy ....
The system is already crumbling. Political processes, not much different from the Stalinist ones, are underway in Belarus today, and often there is not even a semblance of legality. Obviously, the system has gone haywire and is frantically trying to shut everyone s mouth and push everyone into prison, not even realizing that any lawlessness comes to an end and everything will have to be answered. These days, Viktar Babaryka, a candidate for the presidency of Belarus, who played a huge role in the revolutionary upsurge of Belarusians in 2020, is also being tried. I cannot say that this is my candidate; however, I consider it necessary right now to express my admiration for this man s courage. Yes, of course, it was possible to understand who Lukashenka was several decades earlier, but the fact that Viktar Babaryka challenged the tyrant and announced his intention to become president is undoubtedly a brave and respectable act. ....
New materials on the dictator s crimes will be published very soon. Ihar Makar, the officer who uncovered the wiretap of the KGB chief who was planning to assassinate Pavel Sharamet, has spoken in his interview to Novaya Gazeta correspondent Iryna Khalip about who he was handing the tape over to, who shot Aliaksandr Taraikouski in Minsk on August 10, the atmosphere in the security agencies, and why it is a crime to take the Almaz special forces unit out into the streets. The recording of the conversation that occurred eight years ago, in which the then KGB Chairman Vadzim Zaitsau and two members of the KGB special unit Alfa were discussing the future murder of at least four Belarusian citizens abroad, was made public by a former member of another special unit, who is also currently living abroad. There is a kind of near-artistic completeness about it. ....