ABSTRACT
The past 10 to 15 years in the life of a relatively small country like Belarus, years coinciding with the change of millennium, were transitional. And as time goes by, both professional commentators and the general public are becoming less and less certain about their opinions on these dramatic events. What was ‘the station’ where ‘the train to the bright future’ left from, and what is the definition of ‘the station’ and the direction the train is going in? In our view, in the case of system transformations in the post-Soviet states, debate continues about the fundamental processes, which caused such a major geopolitical upheaval. And it will be a long time until the world gains its lost balance back again.
