According to the newly elected head of the Coordinating Committee of the Belarusan National Platform (BNP) of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF), BNP should answer all principles of the union of non-governmental organizations.
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Belarusan National Platform: Successes backgrounded by a crisis (Photo)
“Belarus’ civil society: challenges of standstill and governmentalisation of the third sector”. The conference under such name took place in Minsk on June 25.
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Uladzimir Matskevich: The main thing is to prevent governmentalisation of Belarusan National Platform
According to the founder of the Belarusan National Platform, if civil society won’t use the instrument as intended Belarusan regime will certainly do that.
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Andrei Yahorau: Civil society should resist Belarus’ degradation
EU tries to keep Belarus in its influence sphere or at least at border of the “Russian World”, which means that it’ll sacrifice democratic society’s interests for good relations with the regime.
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Tatiana Vadalazhskaya: Belarusan thinking is poetic if we consider the quotes that people send us
Most often Belarusans recall works by Vasil Bykau and Uladzimir Karatkievich. However, they quote fresh thoughts: both from the books of Paval Sieviaryniets and Ihar Babkou as well as pearls found in the 16th century.
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Uladzimir Matskevich: In 2015 Lukashenko is as close to legitimizing his regime as never before
The only way-out for the opposition is to ignore the elections, which is impossible due to inability of cooperation.
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Uladzimir Matskevich: We shouldn’t exclude chances of NATO-Russia collision at the Ukrainian land
However, Russia isn’t ready for a full-scale confrontation with the Western world as ever.
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Uladzimir Matskevich: Russia cannot venture an unpunished escalation of conflict in Ukraine
Non-fulfillment of Minsk agreements causes enhancement of sanctions against Russia.
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Andrei Yahorau: EU isn’t ready to actively influence the Eastern Partnership countries
The Riga Summit not only left the existing problems unresolved, but also didn’t radically reject the goals of the Eastern Partnership.
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Civil society called for the participants of the Riga Summit to reform the Eastern Partnership
During the 2nd day of the EaP Civil Society Conference in Riga there were attempts to resolve the task of formulating its statement to the participants of the Summit that opened in Riga last night.
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Andrei Yahorau — Al Jazeera: “Lukashenko is irresponsible”
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.