As the mainstream Western press keeps lamenting Belarus’s rising influence, very few commentators dare to explain why “the last dictatorship in Europe” became the only possible venue for peace talks between the warring Ukrainian parties.

The explanation is not quite flattering for the countries of the EU: it turned out that they all were biased in their attitude to the conflict in Ukraine, all of them to various extents joined in the Western chorus of lies about the “peaceful” protests on Maidan in January-February 2014 and about the “democratic nature” of the nationalist regime that holds power in Kiev now.