EXILED BELARUS UNIVERSITY LITHUANIA VILNIUS, NORDIC COUNCIL, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS Alexander Lukashenko exploits his contested mandate as president of Belarus to crush his country's opposition, the European Union and the Nordic Council of Ministers have pledged Euro 2.78 million to help a Belarusian university in exile survive. The formerly Minsk-based independent European Humanities University (EHU) was shut down by Lukashenko's proto-Soviet regime in 2004, which tolerates few independent centres of thinking, learning and debate. The EHU has however since been resurrected in the Lithuania capital Vilnius, surviving on ...
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