Belarusian Yearbook 2021

Belarusian Yearbook 2021 constitutes a comprehensive analysis of developments in the key segments of the state and society in the year 2020, which became an obvious landmark for the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic, the summer presidential election campaign amid exhausted resources for recovery growth and a gradual sinking into recession, the mass protests against the election fraud from August through December, the violence of law enforcers that turned out to be unprecedented for the 21st century Europe, and the grave political crisis were the main drivers of the political agenda. In 2020, the Belarusian state and society went through a sort of the “perfect storm”, which will definitely have a long-lasting impact on the country