What's the deal with Belarus?

Amid protests and police violence in Belarus, with the biggest rally taking place on March 25 in Minsk and the country's larger cities against the so-called “social parasites” law, the country has once again appeared on the global media radar. read more

Belarus is an inward looking landlocked country with Soviet style state capitalism. It’s satellite of Russia. It makes more money by outsourcing young IT developers than by producing stuff that can be sold in other countries than Russia, but they manage to sell Belarus made shrimps to Russians under sanctions: ). read more

Belarus has been at peace since the fall of the Soviet Union, and they are not worse off than other CIS/EAEU states. It is Ukraine you should be concerned about, it is exactly in the position you just described. read more