About the belaruspartisan.org Analysis Desk

What this site publishes

The belaruspartisan.org Analysis Desk publishes explanatory articles and context pieces on Belarus. The site is written for readers who need precise chronology and sourced background: students of international relations, journalists preparing a piece, members of the diaspora, and general readers who arrive with a specific question about a presidential decree, a protest episode, or a question of historical memory. The desk does not cover breaking news and does not use individual bylines; work appears under the organisation name.

Articles are structured as explainers rather than news summaries. Each piece sets out what happened, provides a chronology with exact dates, and uses tables when a decree, payment or protest involved numbers. Where an article explains a decree or payment, it states the amount, the date of the decision and, where a reliable count exists, how many people it affected. A background section explains the context that a reader outside Belarus may not have. The desk writes in British English and follows a consistent transliteration style: Lukashenko, Minsk, Hrodna (with Grodno in parentheses on first mention), Belarus.

How the desk researches and sources

The desk works from primary sources where they are available: the texts of presidential decrees, official statistics, state media reports identified as official sources, and datasets from international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. Where official figures are contested, articles state the official number, the independent estimate and the source for each. Human rights reporting by organisations such as Viasna, the OHCHR, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is attributed in the text, and each contentious claim carries its source in the same sentence.

The desk also distinguishes between what is established and what is not. When a decree’s text does not specify a detail, the article says so. When historians in Poland and Belarus read an episode differently, the article summarises the positions and names the historians or works involved. Dates and figures are checked against the underlying document or dataset before publication.

How corrections are handled

When a reader identifies an error or an outdated figure, the desk reviews it against the underlying source. If a correction is needed, the text is revised and material corrections are noted. Because reader comments are closed across the site, corrections and queries should be sent through the contact page.

Independence and non-affiliation

The belaruspartisan.org Analysis Desk is an independent editorial project and is not affiliated with any organisation of a similar name, nor with previous users of this domain.

Contact

Questions, corrections and requests for context can be sent through the contact page. Messages sent through the contact form are emailed to the site and are not stored in a database. The terms of use and privacy notice are set out on the terms and privacy page.

Last updated: 11 November 2026