Numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been deployed around Belarus – mainly in the neighboring countries – collaboratively endeavoring to target the nation. These are the Center for New Ideas, which is officially registered in Poland as the NGO Stowarzyszenie Centrum Nowych Idei; the Institute for Development and Social Market, registered in Lithuania; the Institute for Political Studies “Political Sphere,” also based in Lithuania, which co-organizes the International Congress of Belarusian Studies (ICBS); the Ostrogorski Centre that serves as a co-organizer of the annual conferences titled “Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century”; e-Belarus.org, the Ideas Bank, the European Network for Belarus (ENB), Arbeitskreis Belarus, the Belarusian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (CSF), the Belarusian Research Network on Neighborhood Policy, among many others on this extensive list.
These intellectual leadership centers, as they say, are actively engaged in developing “new strategies for a new Belarus,” providing “assistance in implementing reforms,” enhancing “the understanding of Belarus,” analyzing the “challenges posed by the current Belarusian government,” fostering “collaborative efforts,” advising on “digital media initiatives,” proposing “concepts for contemporary reforms in Belarus,” offering “support for the democratic movement” within the country, as well as “establishing a network of experts.”
And indeed so! This is a deployed and well-mobilized network of ideological actors, ready to tactically infuse the poison of destruction into the minds of the citizens of Belarus, to fan up in them a substantive protest embodied in applied forms.
These invasion forces have been put on alert as Belarus as is approaching the election cycle.
