As of Belarus referred to as a post- State of the prefix post sounds very conditional: the country, U.S. State Department called the last dictatorship in Europe, is controlled by the iron hand of President Alexander Lukashenko, based on security service called the KGB. The organization Freedom House in the worst of the worst – 2009 included Belarus on the list of 21 most authoritarian countries. All the more strange, says the magazine Time, on 20 March that the EU has included the country in its Eastern Partnership.
This initiative was reportedly involves the strengthening of economic and political relations between the united Europe and six former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. A more intimate relationship, as expected in Brussels, will promote the development of democracy and respect for human rights.
It appears, says the publication, in Europe, decided that the policy of isolation in Minsk did not work. It appears that the insulation has failed, because the political structure of the country is almost there have been no changes or shifts in the direction of democratization, – said David Marplz, an expert on Belarus at the University of Alberta in Canada. Indeed, Russia has eased the crisis and drop in the price of hydrocarbons, for Europe an opportunity to increase its influence in the region.
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Brussels has already made several steps toward Minsk: a lift the ban on entry of Lukashenko and senior officials in Europe, more than that: they are invited to an informal meeting in Prague, which will be held in April, and Javier Solana, visited Minsk in February this year. For his part, Lukashenko has issued a number of political prisoners and gave no order for the dispersal of opposition demonstrations, which took place yesterday in Minsk. However, many political analysts believe that it is only a game in which he may receive dividends from both Russia and the West.
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