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Brian Whitmore

Brian Whitmore is director of the Russia Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Before joining CEPA he was a senior Russia analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe in Moscow and Prague; as a graduate instructor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina; and as a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at Mechnikov National University in Odesa, Ukraine, and the International Relations Faculty at St. Petersburg State University.

Articles by Brian Whitmore

Nov. 4, 2021, 5:57 pm

Brian Whitmore: Is Lukashenko mimicking Putin’s weaponization of organized crime?

Oct. 27, 2021, 9:48 pm

Brian Whitmore: Has Lukashenko’s anti-NATO gambit paid off with Putin?

Oct. 21, 2021, 2:36 am

Brian Whitmore: Are Belarus and Russia using migrant crisis to smuggle agents into Europe?

Oct. 14, 2021, 1:30 am

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko escalates EU border crisis

Oct. 7, 2021, 1:31 am

Brian Whitmore: West seeks new ways to hold Belarus dictator Lukashenka accountable

Sept. 29, 2021, 8:35 pm

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko vs. Ukraine

Sept. 23, 2021, 4:57 pm

Brian Whitmore: Russia fears the Belarusization of Belarus

Sept. 17, 2021, 4:06 pm

Brian Whitmore: What Russian elections will reveal about the Kremlin

Sept. 16, 2021, 8:58 pm

Brian Whitmore: Russian-Belarusian military merger accelerates

Sept. 9, 2021, 11:07 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus and Europe’s new Iron Curtain

Sept. 2, 2021, 9:36 am

Brian Whitmore: Putin militarizes Belarus

Aug. 25, 2021, 8:40 pm

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko goes all in with Putin

Aug. 19, 2021, 12:49 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus dictator escalates EU border migrant crisis

Aug. 12, 2021, 12:51 am

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko ‘negotiates’ his political future with Moscow

Aug. 4, 2021, 8:29 pm

Brian Whitmore: Belarus dissident death in Ukraine fuels fears over Lukashenko death …

July 29, 2021, 12:33 am

Brian Whitmore: Concerns mount over Russia-Belarus military exercises

July 22, 2021, 10:03 pm

Brian Whitmore: Money wars in Belarus

July 15, 2021, 3:08 am

Brian Whitmore: Putin and Lukashenko are locked in a dysfunctional axis of autocrats

July 8, 2021, 12:52 am

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko vs. Europe

July 1, 2021, 4:30 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus dictator weaponizes illegal migrants against EU

June 23, 2021, 6:25 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus sanctions target dictator’s Russian enablers

June 17, 2021, 10:11 am

Brian Whitmore: Tensions mount between Belarus dictator and Kremlin

June 9, 2021, 8:55 pm

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko backs Putin’s Ukraine war

June 3, 2021, 12:44 am

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s Belarus strategy — arsonist and firefighter?

May 27, 2021, 1:41 am

Brian Whitmore: Did Russia assist in Belarus dictator’s act of air piracy?

May 20, 2021, 12:36 am

Brian Whitmore: How Putin and Lukashenko really talk to each other

May 13, 2021, 12:42 am

Brian Whitmore: Time to sanction the Putin-Lukashenko ‘axis of autocrats’

May 6, 2021, 11:11 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus sanctions – time to target Russia?

April 29, 2021, 12:24 am

Brian Whitmore: Lukashenko’s succession gambit — Kremlin capitulation or power play?

April 22, 2021, 12:17 am

Brian Whitmore: Bizarre Belarus ‘coup plot’ has all the hallmarks of a classic Kremlin …

April 14, 2021, 7:37 pm

Brian Whitmore: Belarus is the new front in Putin’s war against Ukraine

April 7, 2021, 9:52 pm

Brian Whitmore: The battle for Belarus – Russified regime faces Westernizing society

April 1, 2021, 12:43 am

Brian Whitmore: Inside the Russian takeover of Belarus

March 25, 2021, 12:39 am

Brian Whitmore: Moscow’s man in Minsk

March 17, 2021, 9:26 pm

Brian Whitmore: How do you sanction a problem like Lukashenko?

March 10, 2021, 7:57 pm

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s stealth takeover of Belarus gains momentum

March 4, 2021, 8:34 am

Brian Whitmore: Spring showdown looms in Belarus

Feb. 25, 2021, 12:44 am

Brian Whitmore: Questions remain after Putin hosts Lukashenka

Feb. 18, 2021, 3:40 am

Brian Whitmore: Innovative opposition defies Belarus dictator Lukashenko

Feb. 10, 2021, 9:44 pm

Brian Whitmore: Is Russia slowly annexing Belarus in plain sight?

Feb. 4, 2021, 12:25 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus national reinvention leaves little room for Russia

Jan. 27, 2021, 10:13 pm

Brian Whitmore: Protest mood spreads from Belarus to Russia as calls grow for post-Soviet …

Jan. 21, 2021, 10:17 am

Brian Whitmore: Belarus presents the West with an opportunity to be on the right side of …

Jan. 14, 2021, 2:46 am

Brian Whitmore: Vladimir Putin has nothing but bad options in Belarus

Aug. 2, 2020, 3:57 pm

Brian Whitmore: A tale of two uprisings

July 30, 2020, 9:29 pm

Brian Whitmore: The ghosts of protests past

July 22, 2020, 9:49 pm

Brian Whitmore: If you can’t make it, steal it

July 18, 2020, 11:39 am

Brian Whitmore: Trouble on the Black Sea

July 18, 2020, 9:12 am

Brian Whitmore: Fear and loathing in post-plebiscite Russia

July 8, 2020, 5:46 pm

Brian Whitmore: Welcome to late Putinism

July 5, 2020, 9:07 am

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s grand illusion

July 1, 2020, 10:01 pm

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s murder-for-hire ring

June 28, 2020, 9:17 am

Brian Whitmore: Russia’s forever ruler

June 16, 2020, 9:43 pm

Brian Whitmore: Extortion as statecraft

May 4, 2020, 9:47 pm

Brian Whitmore: Coronavirus in the Kremlin

Feb. 29, 2020, 5:01 pm

Brian Whitmore: Tinker, tailor, hitman, spy

Feb. 20, 2020, 9:47 pm

Brian Whitmore: Russia’s untouchables

Feb. 15, 2020, 2:54 pm

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s gangsters

Feb. 12, 2020, 8:13 pm

Brian Whitmore: Belarus in between

Feb. 9, 2020, 11:26 am

Brian Whitmore: Putin’s big fat Turkish divorce

Jan. 30, 2020, 10:03 pm

Brian Whitmore: Legitimizing an empire

Jan. 25, 2020, 4:54 pm

Brian Whitmore: Russia’s succession problem

Jan. 5, 2020, 4:49 pm

Brian Whitmore: Moscow’s 1989 lies

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