The State of Denial Amidst a Military Parade: COVID-19 in Belarus

Co-authored with Uladzislau Belavusau

By mid-May 2020, the nexus between the state of democracy and rule of law, and the ways countries are grappling with COVID-19 has crystalized so vividly (including in the impressive array of essays on Verfassungsblog) that it is almost trivial to expect repressive legal twists from a clearly authoritarian state granted extra emergency powers. In the end, the current spread of the pandemic is the result of... continue reading on Verfassungsblog