2011
DOI: 10.1080/13523279.2011.564090
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Belarus and the West: From Estrangement to Honeymoon

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“…The election itself appeared to have represented a modest step forward, in the view of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): the presidential election, they reported the morning afterwards, had shown that Belarus had still a "considerable way to go" in meeting its OSCE commitments, but some "specific improvements" had all the same been made (OSCE, 2010). The beating of political opponents and peaceful demonstrators that followed gave the European Union (EU) little alternative other than to reimpose and even extend its list of leading officials to whom an entry visa would be denied, and a "honeymoon" (Ioffe, 2011) that had scarcely begun came to an abrupt conclusion.…”
Section: Eurasian Geography and Economicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The election itself appeared to have represented a modest step forward, in the view of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): the presidential election, they reported the morning afterwards, had shown that Belarus had still a "considerable way to go" in meeting its OSCE commitments, but some "specific improvements" had all the same been made (OSCE, 2010). The beating of political opponents and peaceful demonstrators that followed gave the European Union (EU) little alternative other than to reimpose and even extend its list of leading officials to whom an entry visa would be denied, and a "honeymoon" (Ioffe, 2011) that had scarcely begun came to an abrupt conclusion.…”
Section: Eurasian Geography and Economicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There had been no change in the country's multidirectional foreign policy, Lukashenka explained: "we simply want to have normal partnership relations with the West" (Izvestiya, May 14, 2009, 4). All the same, relations with Belarus's European neighbors appeared to be S. White et al 4 moving "from estrangement to honeymoon" (Ioffe 2011a), and it was Western rather than Russian influence that appeared to be winning an intensifying competition for effective control over the entire post-Soviet region (Zaiko 2006;Trenin 2009). …”
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