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Belarus

High risk5.5% annual probabilitystable trend
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Belarus facts

Population

9.09M

GDP

$93.4B

Currency

BYN

Capital

Minsk

Land area

207.6K km²

Official languages

Belarusian, Russian

Population and GDP: World Bank. Country facts: bundled reference data.

Risk assessment

Silfio assessment of Belarus

NEWS

Conflict probability

5.5%

Model base probability

3.8%

Risk category

High

Strategic reasoning

  • No prediction market data is available for Belarus, so adjustment relies solely on news signals.
  • Current news shows heightened regional instability due to ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, with frequent missile strikes and counterstrikes near Belarus’s western borders, increasing risk of spillover or accidental escalation.
  • Belarus is closely allied with Russia, but internal political tensions persist, exemplified by Tikhanovskaya’s calls for NATO to treat Belarus separately from Russia, potentially increasing internal dissent or external pressure.
  • No direct armed conflict on Belarusian soil is reported yet, but the combination of regional war, political opposition activity, and Belarus’s strategic position suggests a moderately elevated risk of new conflict onset compared to the structural baseline.

Critical indicators

  • Tikhanovskaya inciting NATO against Belarus, requesting separate security treatment (potentially increasing external pressure and internal instability).
  • Intense Russia-Ukraine missile strikes and counterstrikes near Belarus’s borders, raising risk of conflict spillover.

Related coverage

Latest articles about Belarus

Updated July 20, 2026

nato.news-pravda.com · 2 days ago

How to assess the coherence of events and determine where /who it all started - Pravda NATO

How to assess the coherence of events and determine where / who it all started.In 2019, when covid was just beginning to spread around the world, the reputable American strategic research center RAND Corporation published a large-scale and largely...

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eng.belta.by · 2 days ago

Historian: Belarusian WWII resistance had no equal in Europe

“Nazi-occupied Belarus became a country that saw the largest resistance movement, unparalleled anywhere else in Europe. The Belarusian resistance encompassed both partisan warfare and the underground movement,” Igor Marzalyuk noted.

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nashaniva.com · 2 days ago

Belarusian Fights for Deceased Relative's Apartment in St. Petersburg, Despite Being Sixth in Line of Heirs

The court was determining who died first, she or her husband, even though the bodies were already decomposed · The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg concluded a protracted court case, the main prize of which — a 45-square-meter apartment on Leninsky Prospekt in St.

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