David Kramer: Seeking Justice and Freedom in Belarus
Statement of David J. Kramer, Senior Fellow, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, at the Hearing of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, September 21, 2021
Category: Articles
The World Prays for Belarus: column by BNR President
Novy Čas has published a column by Ivonka Survilla, President of the BNR Rada in exile. *** The security forces subordinated to Aliaksandr Lukašenka are ready to shoot at their peaceful and law-abiding compatriots....
The BNR Rada as the oldest Belarusian democratic advocacy group
The BNR Rada in exile has several important practical functions as a legal safeguard of the first democratic Belarusian statehood, as a representation of Belarus in the Free World and as an association of...
Sportspressen.dk: Government-in-exile compares European Games in Belarus with Olympic Games in Nazi Germany
Belarus’ 100-year-old exiled government, which still fights to return democracy to “the last dictatorship of Europe”, takes stand against President Alexander Lukashenka’s exploitation of the European Games as a political event. The media coverage...
Government in Exile: Explorations of the Belarus Enigma
Presentation by Ivonka J. Survilla, President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in Exile, at the Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists (Ottawa, 24 May 2009) If the sovereigns of my...
The Case of Belarus: Presentation at the European Conscience and Communism conference, Prague, June 2008
Presentation by Ivonka Survilla, President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in Exile, at the international conference European Conscience and Communism in the Senate of the Parliament of Czech Republic, Prague, 2-3 June...
Former US Ambassador: Belarus Democracy Continues In Diaspora
Recent events in the Republic of Belarus demonstrate clearly that democracy is far from having been achieved in that troubled country. That fact confirms the wisdom of the caution shown by today’s heirs of...
Selected Bibliography of works on the struggle for Belarusian Independence 1900-1921 in the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library in London
“…We, the Council (Rada) of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, have cast off from our native land the last vestige of national dependence which the Russian tsars imposed by force upon our free and independent...
Towards Legal Settlement of Communist Crimes: Belarusian Perspective
A presentation by Deputy Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mikałaj Pačkajeŭ in the European Parliament in 2012.
Address to Conference “Belarus – our new neighbour” in Czech Senate (20.3.2004)
Honorable Senators, Dear Friends, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the organizers of this event, dedicated to the European future of Belarus. Blessed with an excellent geopolitical situation, at the crossroads...