Moscow has no other ways to maintain relations with Minsk but to support Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s regime. Despite the conflicts, neither side will raise the question of Belarus-Russia Union project termination. I believe the current leaders would not like to go down in history as destroyers of the Belarus-Russia Union.

According to the public opinion polls, 90% of the Belarusians have considered Russia a friendly state. At present this figure can fall to 70%, this is the maximum, to which the national mass media criticism can lead.

The SCO tries to adequately react to the world processes, which the Yekaterinburg summit has shown. The main subject of the summit was the financial and economic crisis and the ways to minimize its negative consequences for the SCO member states.

At the meeting of the Prime Ministers, which was held on June 9, 2009, it was decided that the single customs tariff would come into force on January 1, 2010. By this date, we should draw up all the remaining international documents.

Eurasian Home with a kind permission of The Pontis Foundation and The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies publishes a paper, prepared by Gleb Shymanovich, "Belarus external debt: Sustaining Levels in a Time of Global Crisis". The paper takes a close look at how Belarus´ foreign debt is structured and what potential impact it could have on the Belarusian economy in the upcoming period.

Eurasian Home with a kind permission of The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) publishes a study “What Eastern Partnership should bring to Belarus”, in which BISS analyzes possibilities of the Eastern Partnership initiative and its potential to transform Belarusian political regime.

When I think about who’s going to be the next Ukrainian president, I don’t wonder about the know-how of the campaign strategists or the ability of the eventual winner. The last presidential election wasn’t about campaign know-how, but rather about vicious tactics and dirty tricks, eventually ending in a back-room compromise that has ever since called into question the know-how and ability of the winner: President Viktor Yushchenko.