The Protests in Belarus: Insights from Minsk and the Western View

Edward Lucas was a senior editor at the Economist newsweekly, and is the author of five books, including The New Cold War, published in 2008. Since 2010 he has been a non-resident fellow at CEPA, a bipartisan think-tank specialising in transatlantic affairs, where he leads a programme on Nordic-Baltic security and edits the weekly China Influence Monitor. He lives in London.

Senior Analyst, Centre for European Transformation, MA in Political Science. Mr Yahorau graduated from the Department of Political Science at Belarusian State University and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science. Mr Yahorau has been working in the field of political research since 2001. He is one of the founders of the only specialised political science journal in Belarus, Political Sphere (Palitychnaya Sfera), and the deputy editor of the journal. Since 2005, he has been an expert and head of the analytical team of the Humanitarian Techniques Agency.

Chris Miller is Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Programme. He is also Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research focuses on Russian politics, foreign policy and economics. His most recent book is Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia, which has been reviewed in publications such as The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest and The Times Literary Supplement.