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Introduction Notes Introduction 1. Other American visitors included Margarita Assenova (Institute for New Democracies), Robert Berls (Nuclear Threat Initiative – NTI), Janusz Bugajski (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Ariel Cohen (Heritage Foun- dation), Vladimir Socor (Jamestown Foundation), Page Stoutland (NTI), and Stephen Woehrel (Congressional Research Service). 2. On June 2010, Russia voted for UN Security Council Resolution No. 1929, which adopted sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program. This followed a long period of Russia’s declining cooperation with the United States on Iran. 3. Olga Shumylo-Tapiola, “Causes and Consequences of Belarus’s Post-Election Violence”, 21 December 2010, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id= 42168, date accessed 28 January 2011. 4. Matthew Rojansky and Ambassador James F. 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Mark Almond, “Less Bizarre than it Seems: The Landslide in Belarus Reflects its Demonized Leader’s Refusal to Back Market Fundamentalism,” The Guardian, 21 March 2006. 28. Ibid. 29. Ibid. 30. Grigory Ioffe, Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 2008, p. 187. 31. IISEPS’ National survey 20 December 2010–2 January 2011, http://www .iiseps.org/. 32. Sam Greene, “Priroda Nepodvizhnosti Rossiiskogo Obschestva,” Pro et Contra, 15, 1–2, January–April 2011, http://carnegie.ru/publications/?lang= ru&fa=43949, date accessed 19 February 2014. 33. Ibid. 272 Notes 34. Valery Karbalevich, Alexander Lukashenka: Politichesky Portret, Moscow: Partizan 2010, p. 83. 35. Ibid., p. 85. 36. Ibid., p. 90. 37. Ibid., p. 221. 38. Ibid. 39. Ibid., p. 289. 40. Ibid., p. 360. 41. Testimony of David J. Kramer, Executive Director of Freedom House before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights and Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia “The Government of Belarus: Crushing Human Rights at Home?” 1 April, 2011, http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/kra040111.pdf, date accessed 20 May 2011. 42. Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, London: Yale Univer- sity Press 2011. 43. Ibid., p. 253. 44. Ibid., pp. 75 and 115. 45. Ibid., p. 171. 46. Ibid., p. 257. 47. Ibid., p. 259. 48. Ibid. 49. Brian Bennett, The Last Dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko, New York: Columbia University Press 2011. 50. Ibid., p. 3. 51. Ibid., p. 2. 52. Ibid., p. 4. 53. Ibid., p. 271. 54. Ibid., p. 277. 55. 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Boyer, “Congress is Getting Rich Off Wall Street and Peter Schweitzer Won’t Stop until Everyone Knows It,” Newsweek, 21 November 2011, pp. 32–36. Notes 273 63. James Kirchik, “Belarus, the Land of No Applause,” World Affairs Jour- nal, 11 November 2011, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/belarus -land-no-applause, date accessed 19 February 2014. 64. Andrew Wilson, “Lukashenka’s Game Is Up,” Current History, October 2011, pp. 277–282. 1 Belarusian Economy 1. Grigory Ioffe, “Understanding Belarus: Economy and Political Landscape,” Europe-Asia Studies, 2004, 56, 1, pp. 85–118; Grigory Ioffe, Understand- ing Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2008. 2. Alexander Sinkevich, “Sumerki epokhi. Vyzov integratsii,” Belorusskie Novosti, 15 July 2012, http://naviny.by/rubrics/opinion/2012/07/15/ic _articles_410_178470/, date accessed 19 February 2014. 3. 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