• Editorial Foreword

State Authorities

• Presidential Administration: the 2020 trauma, personalization of power, and imitation of electionsValer Karbalevich
• Government’s Staff Shuffle: New positions for old facesOlga Evseeva
• Parliament: Security officials, ideology, and the western frontTatsiana Chulitskaya
• State’s Security Framework: “Hard” times call for simple and unambiguous solutionsMarlev Varashchuk
• Local Authorities: Renewal of the deal with LukashenkoDzmitry Kukhlei

Foreign Policy

• Belarus in European Union Policy: Sanctions, security, and the limits of pragmatismAlexander Friedman
• Belarus – Russia: Fifty aspects of dependenceYuri Drakakhrust
• Belarusian-U. S. Relations: Paradigm shift and deal diplomacyAnton Penkovsky
• Former Soviet Union Countries and the “Far Arc”: A geopolitical and economic counterbalance to Western isolationKatsiaryna Lozka
• Belarus – China Relations: Ambitious goals, dour achievements, uncertain outlookArseny Sivitsky

Society

• Regime and Society: Transition to totalitarianism and quiet discontentGenadz Korshunau
• Divided yet Unbroken: Belarusian civil society organizationsNatallia Rabava
• Democratic Forces: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya maintains leadership, idea of national dialogue hangs in the airAliaksandr Klaskouski
• Media: Integration into the Russian propaganda ecosystem, semantic capture, fragmentation of the independent segmentMikhail Doroshevich
• Education: Patriotism and loyalty above allPavel Tereshkovich
• Science and Innovation: An “optimistic tragedy”Andrey Laurukhin
• Religious Sphere: “Subtle” pressure and “directed resilience”Natallia Vasilevich
• Belcult: Experiments in the (im)possibleMaxim Zhbankov

Economy

• Macroeconomic Situation: From swift growth to stagnationDmitry Kruk
• Financial Sector: Nominal stability and real risksAnastasiya Luzgina
• Energy Sector: Nuclear ambition fueled by Russian creditPolina Alekseeva
• Real Sector: slowdown on the brink of a crisisVadim Sekhovich

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