Lithuania’s government’s anti-Russian hysteria has reached comic proportions (again)

11 May 2021 Boyan Stanislavski

Lithuania’s government’s anti-Russian hysteria has reached comic proportions (again)

Get this! The Lithuanian president intends to warn EU leaders about the Belarusian nuclear plant Astravyetz, which was built near the two countries’ border, by handing out copies of HBO’s Chernobyl series.Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator. In the late `90 active in the Polish left

2 May 2021 Veronika Sušová-Salminen

The dilemmas of Belarus-Russian relations

Some weeks ago, Vladimir Putin met with Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, Russia. At first glance, Putin-Lukashenko’s talks were informal and even accompanied by leisure activities in the fresh air, which signaled a good mood in relations between the two countries and leaders. But appearances can be deceiving, and sometimes they

23 February 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

The increasingly grotesque anti-Russian hysteria

On the Barricades podcasts hosted the Russian polical scientist Stanislav Byshok, willing to know a Russian perspective on what is going on in Russia’s near abroadMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania

17 November 2020 Vladimir Mitev

The Belarussian protests and its media coverage

The site Tut.by and the Zabastovka channel on Telegram provide good quality journalism and workers’ perspectives. The protests are self-organised and the Poland-based Telegram channels such as NEXTA just encourage them.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries.

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11 November 2020 Vladimir Mitev

The West — Lukashenko’s unrequited love

“These protests will not succeed. These oppositional leaders in Ukraine are waiting for their time” Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, a Polish left-wing journalist and an expert on Eastern Europe, claimed in a special interview for The Barricade.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between

31 October 2020 Vladimir Mitev

The protesters in Belarus are something very different from the oppositional leaders in exile

Interview with the Polish journalist Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat on the internal context and causes for the Belarussian protestsVladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the Romanian website BARICADA Romania, which initially started as

28 September 2020 The Barricade

“Nothing to lose but our chains.”

Mass protests have been taking place in Belarus for over three months now. Political scientist and member of the Central Committee of the left party Fair World Pavel Katarzheuski speaks about the development of the protest movement, prison and torture, as well as the perspectives of the left opposition.The Barricade