On September 19-20, the National Library of Belarus hosted the international scientific and practical conference "International Standards in the electoral process: experience and prospects for development". At this electoral forum, BISR analysts presented a model for analyzing the risks of foreign interference in elections.
Vitaly Punchenko, Deputy Director of the BIS, made a report on the model for analyzing the risks of foreign interference. The presentation detailed the intervention technologies that triggered the "color revolutions" in Serbia, Syria, Ukraine, France and other countries. Vitaly Punchenko proposed an original model for analyzing the factors and mechanisms of electoral intervention. In his opinion, in order to counteract interference in elections, it is necessary to weaken the relationship of internal factors with accompanying external mechanisms of electoral interference.
The undulating dynamics of electoral intervention was the subject of a report by BISR analyst Anatoly Boyashov, who noted that the transfer of pseudoscientific Western concepts into domestic research hinders the objective study of electoral intervention. Anatoly Boyashov put forward a hypothesis about the aggravation of foreign interference during the transformation of political institutions, in view of which it is promising to supplement the study of foreign interventions with the study of the dynamics of intervention, the interrelationships of actors, external and internal mechanisms, the interdependence of external threats and internal contradictions.
The international conference was held with the participation of senior officials of the Republic of Belarus, representatives of election commissions of the CIS countries, state bodies of friendly states. The event was organized by the Central Election Commission, the Presidential Academy of Management, the National Library and the Belarusian Society “Znanie".
