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When Borders Tighten, Propaganda Inflates: The Kremlin’s Border Disinfo Playbook
2025 was certainly a bad year to be flying in or out of Lithuania. According to the Ministry of the Interior , 320 flights have been disrupted at Vilnius and Kaunas airports because of cigarette-smuggling air balloons crossing from Belarus, causing sixty hours of closures and affecting 47,000 passengers. But the fallout has been even harsher for around 185 Lithuanian lorries stranded in Belarus over Christmas, after the authorities there barred them from returning home. Alth
Dec 24, 2025
Belarus: the campaign to harass and lure back exiled political opponents
The 21st of May marks the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. We look at how the regime in Belarus has...
May 26, 2025
Belarusian kindergartens and schools as ideological front lines
Censorship , repression, and ideological indoctrination are increasingly shaping the information landscape in both Russia and Belarus. In...
Apr 22, 2025
Belarus: Prisoners on screen
Producing and airing so-called ‘repentance videos’ – in which political detainees supposedly confess, regret, or denounce their former...
Apr 9, 2025
Lukashenka’s cemented dictatorship in Belarus: four years since August 2020
Four years have passed since the rigged 9 August 2020 presidential election in Belarus. Ordinary people are labelled traitors and...
Aug 28, 2024
Belarus: Militarisation of minors
One of our earlier analyses touched upon the Sovietisation of Belarusian schools that have lately been mostly renamed after Soviet...
Feb 20, 2024
2021 - the golden year of Belarusian exports?
While the whole world is watching the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-EU border, the Lukashenko regime is going through the golden age...
Dec 6, 2021
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