Tim Gosling in Moscow
Tue, 22nd Mar -- Belarus is teetering ever closer to running out of foreign currency reserves as the current account deficit balloons, with analysts saying that the rapidly deteriorating economic situation makes a currency devaluation increasingly likely.

Tim Gosling in Moscow
Tue, 22nd Mar -- December's rigged presidential election in Belarus briefly brought protesters onto the streets, only for the authorities to quickly to crush the dissent. In the following weeks, protests over economic hardships and corruption spread across the North Africa and the Middle East, which has served only to increase concern in Minsk over the poor state of the economy.

Vic Vapennik in Minsk
Tue, 22nd Mar -- Since the violence and repression that followed the rigged December 19 elections, the Belarusian people have adopted a number of strategies to cope with the new fearful climate.

Nicholas Watson in Bratislava
Wed, 9th Mar -- The problem of what to do about Belarus was exercising the minds of the great and the good at the Globesec 2011 conference in Bratislava on March 3.

Graham Stack in Kyiv
Tue, 22nd Mar -- In Eastern Europe, the beer industry was amongst the first sectors to attract major foreign direct investment. First Russia, then Ukraine and now Belarus