Just days before the European Union Foreign Affairs Council’s resolution to lift the sanctions imposed on Belarus in the aftermath of the December 2010 presidential elections, the Belarusian media were full of musings and speculations about the upcoming decision. Some, like veteran opposition journalist Alexander Klaskovsky, opined that the sanctions would be re-imposed and suspended but not entirely removed (Naviny.by, February 10). Most observers, however, expressed the view that sanctions would be lifted altogether, except on three former and one current Belarusian official suspected of having played a key role in the disappearance of four politically active Belarusians in 1999–2000; …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation