№ 15 (2) 2010 ISSN 1819—3625 №15(2), 2010 © Authors Siarhei Bohdan – political scientist, specialist on Iran, research fellow with the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, Lithuania-Belarus);
journalist, Naša Niva weekly (Minsk, Belarus) Tatsiana Chyzhova – philosopher, research fellow with the Philosophy Institute of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (Minsk) Aleh Dziarnovich – PhD, historian, senior research fellow with the History Institute of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (Minsk) Nicole Gallina – PhD, political scientist, a research associate and senior lecturer at the Interfaculty Center for Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) Uladzislau Ivanou – ethnologist and political scientist, lecturer of political history and political science at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) Viktar Kavalyou – political scientist, PhD student at the University of Warsaw (Poland) Andrei Kazakevich – PhD, political scientist, director of the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, Lithuania-Belarus) Aliaksei Lastouski – PhD, sociologist, research fellow with the Sociology Institute of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (Minsk); research fellow with the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, LithuaniaBelarus) Siarhei Liubimau – PhD, sociologist, lecturer of sociology at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) Victor Martinovich – PhD, associate professor at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) Irmina Matonytė – PhD, sociologist, professor at the University of Management and Economics (Vilnius, Lithuania) 264 № 15 (2) 2010 Dzianis Melyantsou – political scientist, senior analyst with the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies; research fellow with the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, Lithuania-Belarus) Iryna Mikheyeva – PhD, cultural anthropologist and philosopher, research fellow with the Philosophy Institute of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (Minsk) Mikhail Niadzvietski – political scientist, research fellow with the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, Lithuania-Belarus) Aliaksandr Shamiakin – historian, political scientist, research fellow with the Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere (Vilnius-Minsk, Lithuania-Belarus) Natallia Vasilevich – political scientist, senior lecturer at the Department of Law Theory and History of the Belarusian Law Institute; director of the Ekumena center (Minsk, Belarus)