On 5 May 2016 an international conference „Understanding Belarus Security”, co-organized by the Jamestown Foundation (USA), Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), and the Minsk Dialogue Track-II initiative (Belarus), was held in Minsk. With the exception of Session 1, the conference was held under the Chatham House Rule with a view to facilitating open exchange. International security experts from the USA, EU, Russia, and Belarus gathered in the Belarusian capital to analyze the objective foundations and challenges to Belarus’s international security and to assess Belarus’s abilities to provide for its own security and to stabilize the regional situation against the backdrop of the problematic relations between Russia and the West.
