Anaïs Marin, a specialist in Eastern Europe and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus between 2018 and 2024, describes the relationship between Minsk and Moscow as one in which Lukashenko tried years in a row to transform even the West into an instrument of negotiation with Russia. Prior to the crisis of 2020, says Marin, the Belarusian leader could periodically threaten Moscow with a normalisation of relations…
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Anaïs Marin, a specialist in Eastern Europe and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus between 2018 and 2024, describes the relationship between Minsk and Moscow as one in which Lukashenko tried years in a row to transform even the West into an instrument of negotiation with Russia. Prior to the crisis of 2020, says Marin, the Belarusian leader could periodically threaten Moscow with a normalisation of relations…