International cooperation

Belarus in the SCO: strategic perspective and reasonable alternative

02 august 2024
Petrochemistry
Having methodically and responsibly passed almost 15 years, Belarus has become the tenth member of the SCO (along with India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). In 2023, the member states accounted for 70.4% of the total trade turnover of Belarus, and by the end of January-April 2024 – 71.4%. ...

Modi 3.0: prospects and opportunities for Belarusian-Indian cooperation

30 july 2024
BELTA
A month after the final of the national elections in India and the formation of a new government, Narendra Modi, who headed it for the third time in a row (a historical record since the time of J. Nehru), paid an official visit to Moscow after a two-year pause. There he met with President Vladimir Putin in the format of the traditional (22nd in a row) annual bilateral summit. ...

Makarov: BISR plans to transfer interaction with Chinese ʺthink tanksʺ into practice

20 april 2024
Belarus today
The Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research is looking forward to develop practical cooperation with "think tanks" and institutes of China. This was stated by BISR director Oleg Makarov at an expert seminar with the participation of Chen Zhou, Deputy Head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee. ...

BISR analyst: the integration model of the Union State is in demand in CIS

13 october 2023
BELTA
The integration model of the Union State is in demand in the CIS space. This viewpoint was expressed to BelTA by Olga Lazorkina, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, Candidate of Historical Sciences. ...

BISR expert: OSCE as organization has long ceased to exist

22 may 2023
BELTA
The Organization for Security and Co-peration in Europe as an organization has long ceased to exist. This was stated on the TV channelSTVby expert of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research Anatoly Boyashov, BelTA reports. ...

BISR analyst predicts the prospects for CSTO development

22 may 2023
Belarus today
The CSTO has not previously taken into account geopolitics in the sense that the union was created not against someone, but for collective defense at the regional level. This opinion was voiced to journalists by BISR analyst Anatoly Boyashov as he commented on the recent CSTO PA meeting. He made a forecast regarding the prospects for the organization development: ...

On 28 Union programs as a model integration strategy

19 may 2023
Belarus today
By the law of multiplication The bet on in-depth integration worked. This is how we can characterize the dynamics of Belarus-Russia relations in recent years. ...

Belarusʹ pivot to Asia – an anti-crisis strategy and a tool for national security ensurance...

17 october 2022
Belarus today
The world is on the threshold of the Golden Age of Asia The Belarusian President's speech at the Sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia has already been called powerful, it contains a number of important statements. In particular, Alexander Lukashenko stressed that the time has come for Asia, and it is very important not to miss it. ...

BISR analyst on Belarusʹ accession to the SCO: this is not a panacea and not an end in itself...

16 september 2022
Belarus today
"The upcoming accession of Belarus to the SCO should be considered as the materialization of the Belarusian President's initiative "integration of integrations", which assumed the "linking" of the space from Lisbon to Vladivostok". Such opinion was expressed to sb.by reporter by BISR analyst Yuri Yarmolinsky. He noted that in the current geopolitical realities, this idea has been radi...

The Caspian reset. Why does the Grodno region seek to increase supplies to Kazakhstan?

24 august 2022
Grodno truth
The trade volume of the two countries will reach $2 billion this year. Belarus is steadily increasing trade turnover with Kazakhstan. The bilateral trade volume of the two countries is about to increase to $2 billion this year. Enterprises of the Grodno region are also striving to increase supplies to a friendly country. ...

Global geopolitics and geo-economics keeps turning towards Asia

13 may 2022
Belarus today
The "Pivot to Asia" as a breakdown of patterns As the Ukrainian crisis escalates, global geopolitics and geo-economics keeps turning towards Asia. Although by itself this factor does not determine processes, but is a catalyst to them. In any case, what is happening should be considered as a breaking of old global architecture of the Yalta-Potsdam era and building a new one, the name ...

Belarus-Kazakhstan cooperation to open new post-pandemic opportunities

10 december 2020
BELTA
Belarus-Kazakhstan cooperation will open new opportunities in the post-coronavirus period. This opinion was expressed by the head of the BISR department Anton Dudarenok as he spoke today at the round table "Kazakhstan in the modern world. N.A. Nazarbayev leadership factor" held in the House of Friendship. ...