Today Alaksiej Pikulik was presented an official paper at the Office of Internal Affairs of the Centralny District in Minsk informing him that the term of checking the validity of his passport has been extended for another month.

BISS presents the ninth issue of the BISS Trends - quarterly monitoring of the Belarus’s political, social and economic development. The first quarter of 2012 can be regarded as a pause before Belarus finally has to address a crucial geopolitical challenge. The end of this period saw the country in a position of considerable uncertainty, which is largely due to the impending geopolitical choice of its administration: Belarus will either embark on a multi-vector policy, or aim exclusively at further integration with Russia.

BISS`March 2012  Polling Memo

BISS presents the fifth issue of the polling memorandum series based on the public opinion poll data of the Independent Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS).

The Consortium of Belarusian and Lithuanian organisations under the auspices of the Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and "Political Sphere" Institute (Belarus) is pleased to announce a call for individual applications for the 2nd International Congress of Belarusian Studies, held on September 28-30, 2012 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

BISS welcomes the release of Andrej Sannikau and Zmicier Bandarenka and wishes them and their families happiness on this Easter day. The news itself is an excellent present for a lot of Belarusian citizens.

BISS Academic Director Alexei Pikulik on April 6 spent eight hours at a police station. His passport and iPad were confiscated.