Lukashenko Archives - Robert Lansing Institute

The Murder of Semyon Skrepetsky in Poland: A Russian Signal to Lukashenko and an Attempt to Prevent Belarus’s Westward Maneuver

The murder of Russian opposition artist Semyon Skrepetsky in the Polish city of Biała Podlaska, near the Belarusian border, should be viewed not merely as a criminal act but also as…

June 16, 2026Belarus, Lukashenko, Russia

Conflict National Security

Signs of Russian provocation being prepared in Belarus to drag Minsk into war

Since February 2022, Russia has suffered heavy military losses while failing to achieve any of its initial goals for the invasion of Ukraine. An attempt to advance on the battlefield…

April 2, 2024Belarus, Lukashenko, Russia, USA

Governance Intelligence ops

Risks growing around Belarus amid Russia’s battlefield failures

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko's health condition may push the Kremlin toward some radical decisions regarding this country. They will thwart a negative scenario for Moscow where the regime in Minsk changes…

May 13, 2023Belarus, Lukashenko

Democracy migration

Minsk effort to trigger migration crisis in the Baltics, to make for soft power shift in Belarus

Political turmoil in Belarus brought the Syrian emigration scenario to Lithuanian border. Despite the political unrest in Belarus, illegal migrants, eager to get across to Lithuania, mostly come from Asia…

June 11, 2021Belarus, Lithuania, Lukashenko

Geopolitics

Lukashenko’s inauguration: run-up to Anschluss

Lukashenko’s inauguration was a significant symbolic act of selling yet more components of Belarusian sovereignty out to Russia. Having “re-elected” Lukashenko, Belarus practically lost a part of its international identity.…

September 24, 2020Belarus, Lukashenko

Intelligence ops

Bogus Belorussian SIGINT records to support Lukashenko regime

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has launched a disinformation campaign in Europe on the poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. During the meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin,…

September 7, 2020Belarus, Lukashenko

Geopolitics

Amidst Belarus protests Russia to increase its influence on Lukashenko

The situation development in Belarus following the presidential elections makes a scenario of the Kremlin's growing influence on official Minsk quite real. Since the mid-2000s the federal media have called…

August 25, 2020Belarus, Lukashenko, Russia

Governance

Belarus gets in political headwinds

On August 9, Belarus will hold presidential elections where the acting president Alexander Lukashenko will face serious problems ever before. Thus, 2020 will start a new era for the Republic…

June 15, 2020Belarus, Lukashenko

Geopolitics Situation Reports

Russia tricks with Lukashenko on the Union State creation

By reviving the issue of the practical creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus with common authorities, a single currency and economic space the Kremlin tries to trick…

December 4, 2019Belarus, Lukashenko, Russia, Union State

Lukashenko