Later this month Belarusian authorities plan to negotiate with the IMF a new $3.8bn loan to refinance its existing debt to the organization. With generous subsidies from Russia, the government managed to stabilize the situation in the Belarusian economy after the 2010 crisis, but this had harsh consequences for public welfare.
A visit of the Polish Foreign Minister in Kyiv confirmed status quo of the negotiations on signing the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. President Viktor Yanukovych does not intend to satisfy in any way the Union’s demands of releasing from prison members of the former government, especially the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Is it possible that the agreement will be initialled this month anyway?
Uznesenie EP tiež naliehavo žiada Rusko, aby sa pripojilo k medzinárodnému konsenzu umožňujúcemu Bezpečnostnej rade OSN konať so zámerom o vyriešenie sýrskej krízy. 
“Well, it’s high time!” That’s what I’d like to tell Germany right now. Following December 2011 – the end of Polish Presidency – the Eastern Partnership seemed to be running on its fumes. The limited – and yet exploited to the full – Poland’s diplomatic potential was used to convince major EU players to the Polish concept. 
V sobotu prebehli v Moskve dve demonštrácie: jedna proti Putinovi a druhá na jeho podporu. Putin je mesiac pred prezidentskými voľbami jednoznačným favoritom. 
Despite the government's best efforts to write off protesters, the public discontent is likely to keep growing. 
Russians keen to punish Vladimir Putin at the polls on March 4 have four opposition candidates to choose from, but all are tarnished in some way by their links to the government. Grigorii Golosov analyses what voting strategy will work best to build on the momentum of this winter’s protests, and cautions against accepting any of the candidates’ claims to be true opposition material.