Opinion: Belarus is model of sovereign positions in Eastern Europe

When speaking of Belarus' contribution to building a multipolar world, it is always necessary to consider a model of the future that could have been formed without the country’s participation in this process. Aleksei Avdonin, an expert at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, believes there would be no sovereign positions in Eastern Europe in this case.

“Attempts to break Belarus up through all sort of velvet revolutions, provocations and even armed coups never stop over the past thirty years, but even the most ‘advanced’ technologies failed: Belarus stands its ground confidently. Otherwise, the Union State would no longer exist as such, Russia would be in completely different positions, and the West would clearly identify itself as the winner in the region. There would no longer be such strong interaction between our allied countries and China, including within the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation and BRICS. There would be no CSTO, and the events in Kazakhstan in January 2022 could have developed in a completely different scenario. As a result, no one would talk about the birth of a multipolar world today. Humanity would have to adopt an updated model of the colonial world – with an Anglo-Saxon metropolis dictating everyone what to do, and the rest of the world that is enslaved and exploited,” Mr. Avdonin noted.