Collective monograph “Civil Society in Belarus (2000-2015)” published

In 2015, the Warsaw-based East European Democratic Centre published a collective monograph devoted to the development of civil society in Belarus, titled “Civil Society in Belarus (2000-2015)”. The monograph was edited by Valer Bulhakau and Aliaksei Lastouski, a researcher at the Political Sphere Institute. The monograph opens with texts by Political Sphere Institute researchers: Aliaksei Lastouski (“Solidarity test: reaction of Belarusan civil society to events in Ukraine in 2013-14”), Vadzim Smok (“How Cultural NGOs Struggle for the Right to Be Belarusan”), and Vadzim Bylina (“Football fans as an example of a community beyond the government’s control in the conditions of the authoritarian regime”).

The full text of the monograph is available in open access:

http://issuu.com/eedc_warsaw/docs/final_civil_society_in_belarus_inte_5d21802f640249?e=0/14577854

In Belarusian, the collection of texts was published as a thematic issue of “ARCHE”: “Unequal Partnership: The State and Civil Society under Consolidated Authoritarianism” (No. 4/2015).