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Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS): Belarus a month after the elections. Analyzing the events on the square per ce, strategies and motifs of both the opposition and the government. The regime's next moves after violently dealing with the protests. Did the Belarus-EU dialogue help the regime to apply force with impunity, and what has to be learned? Download the publication. 
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The Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) is delighted to present yet another issue of the newsletter The Bell. This time, the issue is devoted to analysing the privatisation processes and their impact on the economy and the political regime in Belarus.
In the first article Economist Aliaksei Kazlou studies the impact of the privatisation on the country’s labour market. A shift towards a more liberal, private capital driven economy may result in growing unemployment in the short run, but it may also mean increased productivity in the longer run.
In the second article Leonid Zaiko, economist and director of the Minsk-based analytical centre Strategy, depicts the situation from a very different angle. The author claims that privatisation will fundamentally serve as a mechanism to create new conglomerates of political power. 
The Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) is delighted to present yet another issue of the newsletter The Bell.
In this issue you will find an article about the “silent protests” and the “stop-petrol” actions held in Belarus throughout the summer. Their scale and impact are being analysed by Andrej Dynko, Editor of the newspaper Nasha Niva.
In the second article, lawyer and political scientist Yuri Chausau studies the prospects of introducing proportional electoral system before the upcoming parliamentary elections. The main question that the author attempts to answer is whether such a reform would strengthen democracy in Belarus, just like the representatives of the regime try to convince.
The Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) is delighted to present you yet another issue of the electronic newsletter The Bell. In the first article political analyst Pavel Usov examines the state and the actions of the Belarusian systemic opposition in the wake of the current protests and civic actions in the country. The second article is devoted to analysing the imperatives behind the construction of the Astravets nuclear power plant (NPP). Hanna Siarova, researcher at the Vilnius-based Public Policy and Management Institute raises a question: is the Astravets NPP a panacea for the Belarusian energy security?