Modern Orthodox world map was taking its shape gradually, including under the influence of significant political events. Differences between the churches in the XX and XXI centuries were a common phenomenon, but the conflicts, that would have dragged into their orbit the entire Orthodox...
The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research implements a comprehensive approach to the study and analysis of the processes taking place in the Belarusian information space. We keep track of media trends and analyze the available information flows.
We keep track of media trends and ...
The most relevant topics in the foreign media space dealt with the impact of coronavirus on the world economy and the major commodities, stock and currency markets. They point to a sharp drop in the Chinese stock market at the opening of the exchange markets after the Chinese holidays (...
Some researchers and experts call the modern Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic "the oldest operating government in exile". Others strongly disagree with this statement. Let's try to understand this issue by making a historical excursion.
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"The Third Rome" from Hilarion to Hilarion
The idea of combining the Slavic peoples around the Orthodox faith was expressed in the middle of the XI century in the "Sermon on Law and Grace" by Metropolitan Hilarion. In the XVI century the idea received in-depth and stable expression in ...
The missile strike of the US Air Force drones, authorized by the US President D. Trump, on the motorcade, in which the commander of a special unit of "Quds" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and a deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia Mahdi a...
By the time of the liberation of the Belarusian SSR from the Nazi occupation, about 35 thousand members of various collaborationist parties, organizations and armed formations were working on its territory: the Belarusian Independent Party (BIP), the Belarusian Youth Union (BYU), the Be...
In the last decade, the concepts of "hybrid warfare" and "hybrid aggression" have gained a peculiar kind of popularity in political discourse, but no unified approaches to their interpretation have yet been developed.
Some approaches to the concept of "hybrid warfare" combine propagand...
Everyone and their mother has commented on the protest rally against "deep integration" that took place in Minsk on December 7-8. On the Internet, one can find both triumphal shouts about an unprecedented atmosphere of freedom (which even the police officers did not interfere with) and ...
In November 2019, the Ukrainian band TNMK released a cartoon video, which presents the history of Ukraine in five minutes. The cartoon is very close to its Belarusian counterpart, which was released in 2011, both in terms of form and content.
The very presentation of information in the...
As shown by the retrospective analysis of the events progression dynamics, in most countries, fake news is systematically transformed from a routine element of the media space into a threat to national security. This unfavourable reality is publicly recognised not only by small and medi...
Over the past decades, the issue of fake information in India has become a serious problem. And although the country has a stable and well-deserved reputation as one of the world's IT leaders, until recently, the authorities paid relatively little attention to both the introduction of c...