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• Belarus

  Does Belarus’ mandatory work placement scheme exploit or benefit university students?

  15 April 2019, by RAMIREZ Loïc

  Anastasia Tretiak arranges to meet us in the cafeteria of the Minsk State Linguistic University, where she spent several years as a student of French. After completing her studies, she was assigned to a two-year teaching position at a public school. Her employment was mandatory and entirely (...)

• Belarus

  Belarus, yesterday and today

  14 August 2018, by DAIGOD Evgeni , MALEK Jirí

  Impressions from Minsk
  In mid-April this year the working group of the European Left (EL) for the Central and Eastern Europe had a meeting in Minsk. At the same time the meeting’s participants attended a parallel conference prepared by a local sister party of the EL – Belarusian United Left (...)

• Belarus

  The protest of Belarus’ ’social parasites’ - “To join the protests is frightening, not to join is shameful”

  30 March 2017, by IVANOVA Evgenia

  After enjoying a rapprochement with the European Union over the past three years, Belarus - a country with a fluctuating political and human rights record - diverted from this path and returned to its habit of brutal crackdowns on protests.
  Since late 2014 Minsk has been demonstrating a (...)

• Belarus

  Belarusian activists speak: Freedom or Prison – It’s All the Same

  28 March 2017, by CHIZHOVA Tatiana, GLUSHAKOV Yuri, LATUR Maxim, LeftEast

  How ‘Freedom Day’ went in Belarus, and what to expect next: comments from Belarusian activists
  On 25 May 2017, demonstrations marking Freedom Day took place in cities across Belarus (Freedom Day is the anniversary of the announcement of the self-proclaimed Belarusian People’s Republic on 25 March (...)