David Marples

David Marples is Professor of History and Classics at the University Alberta in Edmonton. He is the author of ten books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) and Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999).

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Belarus Starts Propaganda War Against the EU

01.22.2013 David Marples

The showing of the documentary “Pseudomodern” on Belarusian State Television’s Channel One on December 16, 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zzhj-z_O_sE), ignited angry responses from Brussels and defiance from...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Belarus

Belarus’ Economic Turnaround: Is It Sustainable?

12.12.2012 David Marples

In early December, the Anti-Crisis Fund Council of the Eurasian Economic Community approved the latest (fourth) tranche of a $3 billion loan (Belarusian Telegraph Agency,...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Belarus

Privatizing and Nationalizing Companies in Belarus

11.27.2012 David Marples

Under the presidency of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus’s relationship with Russia has always been one of amity combined with duplicity. In theory, Minsk’s position is that...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Belarus

Belarus Targets Intellectual Community

11.07.2012 David Marples

On November 5, the Russian company ROSSPEN published the memoirs of former chairman of the Parliament Stanislau Shushkevich, the first leader of Belarus after independence....

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Belarus