

Lukashenko doesn’t want to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Belarusian political scientist Andrey Liakhovich for DespiteBorders
On 28th September, 2008, parliamentary elections were held in Belarus. The observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has rejected to recognise their result. DespiteBorders talks with the political scientist Andrey Liakhovich, the Director of the Centre for Political Education, about their implications for innerpolitical development in Belarus as well as the latest development within Belarusian-Russian relations.