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Europe Review 2005
Sixteenth edition - First Published in 1986 51 countries - 416 pages - A4 - Softcover ISBN 1 86217 046 0 Purchase Price - £ 50 - € 80 - $ 80

A Typical Review - Belarus

This is the introduction to the eight page review on the Republic of Belarus.

"Belarus provides a disturbing picture of what can happen to a 'democracy' following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. President Lukashenko runs a state in which opposition politicians have been known to conveniently 'disappear' and where peaceful street protest is met by brutal repression. Despite occasional lip service to market reforms designed to assuage foreign investors, virtually all economic activity, 'market socialism', is still controlled by the state. Belarus, like a number of former Soviet states, suffers from political schizophrenia. The West represents investment and international respectibility. But Belarus citizens are Slavs, who habitually speak Russian and in the final analysis are more likely to incline towards Moscow than to Washington or Brussels."

A typical review for each country contains several sections.

For Belarus these include; authoritarian politics, external relations, economy, IMF concerns, outlook and risk assessment. This is in addition to the standard reviews for each country.