HOPING BECAUSE TRUSTING
These are not staff experts or fortune-tellers alone who forecast the future. Prediction is the appanage of every single man...

DYNAMICS OF LOVE UNDER BUREAUCRACY
Authorities vs. Society. Relations within this inseparable couple were the source of problems at all times. They prefer not to speak about this under authoritarian (totalitarian) regimes...

THE QUESTION "WHO’S IN FAULT?" IS NOT TOPICAL SO FAR
The fear survived by the Belarusian society in January of 2007 hasn’t yet fully dissolved. Asked in November of 2006 “How will socio-economic situation in Belarus change in the near future?” only 10.7% of respondents said it would aggravate...

AWARENESS AS A FACTOR OF POLITICS
To begin with, we’ll quote J. Zaller, author of the monograph “The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion”: “The majority of electorate is deliberately ignorant in politics; nevertheless, they differ greatly in their ignorance”...

FROM CONGRESS TO CONGRESS
Comparison of poll data with answers to the question “Did you take interest in the course of Russia-Belarus oil and gas conflict that occurred early this year?” will let us assess attention of the Belarusian society to the Congress of Democratic forces held in May...

BELARUS ON THE LINE OF HUNTINGTON
It is now more than three years as Belarus lies between the two powerful geopolitical forces of the two continents: the European Union in the west and the Russian Federation in the east...

EMOTIONAL CLIMATE IN THE BELARUSIAN SOCIETY
Not every single man can clearly outline his/her political preferences or at all has any preferences. At the same time every man has certain feelings...

UP’S AND DOWN’S OF THE RATINGS OF TRUST
Trust to the power makes the basis of its legitimacy. Of course, power may stand on force, but as Talleyrand noted yet in the beginning of 19^th century, “Much can be done with the help of bayonets, but one cannot sit on them”...

DON’T TRUST, YET SUPPORT
The strategy taken at the Congress of democratic forces has possible negotiations with power for one of its priorities, yet it doesn’t exclude the situation when putting “pressure on power” may become necessary...

DYNAMICS OF "UNANIMITY AND SOLIDARITY"
The new strategy of the United Democratic Forces (UDF) adopted at the Congress at the end of May takes the core of political work from the street onto the bargaining table...

CASE OF A. KOZULIN, A YEAR AFTER
It will be soon a year from the sentence passed onto presidential candidate A. Kozulin, former Head of the Belarusian State University...

OIL & GAS PATRIOTISM
There’s an Italian film which had a great success in USSR – a political detective “Investigation Is Over. Forget It.” Something of this kind the citizens of Russia and Belarus could see on their TV’s in this January...

OPTIMISM HAS GONE DOWN
Despite optimistic statements of authorities that home economics easily overcame consequences of Russia-Belarus oil and gas crisis, every two out of five Belarusians noted that they have already had its repercussions...

LANGUAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
President A. Lukashenko speaks Russian. This is the language he uses for official speeches and for communication with people. Sometimes, usually on country’s national holiday July 3 (Independence Day in Belarus), he may read the message in Belarusian...

SOME TO THE EAST AND SOME TO THE WEST?
Growing tension in Russia-Belarus relations which early this year ended up in yet another oil and gas conflict has brought up to significant changes in integration preferences of Belarusians...

NEITHER EASTERN NOT WESTERN. MAY IT BE ITSELF
This call of Maxim Luzhanin addressed to Belarus precisely describes the tendency that became visible in the Belarusian society approximately a year ago...

BELARUS IN THE CIRCLE OF DISINFORMATION
After collapse of the USSR when leaders of the most post-Soviet countries considerably restricted presence of Russian mass media at their territories at the same time developing their own media and expanding presence of the Western media, there arose cut-throat competition for influence over population at those territories...

GREAT THINGS ARE SEEN AT A DISTANCE
“Social facts” (a term by Emile Durkheim) which have been revealed by IISEPS during almost 16 years enable us to come to certain generalizations, a part of which turns out to be quite unexpected...

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