Media Publications

As a sociologist and political analyst, editor, contributing columnist and TV-radio commentator I have published and broadcast numerous of analytical publications in Belarusian and foreign media. Here are selected articles published in foreign and major Belarusian media since 1990.  

1. Oleg Manaev, “Split in Belarusian Society is a Reality of Millions of People's Life”. Ideas bank, August 5, 2022, WATCH | READ

2. Oleg Manaev, "One country, two different Belaruses", Svaboda, July 31, 2021 (BEL | RUS)

3. Oleg Manaev, “Our banner isn’t down, people hold it aloft”. Belsat. Straight talk. What is the real rating of Lukashenko after the revolution?, April 14, 2021, WATCH | READ | FULL VIDEO

4. Oleg Manaev, "It is possible that neither Lukashenko, nor Tsikhanouskaya received 50%+1 of votes", October 4, 2020, Deutsche Welle

5. Oleg Manaev,«Сквозной эфир», RTVi, November 24, 2020

6. Oleg Manaev,«Сквозной эфир», RTVi, October 14, 2020

7. Oleg Manaev, "Lukashenko’s Belarus may have shrunk, but it’s still there", https://www.kommersant.ru, August 14, 2020

8. Oleg Manaev, «The Belarus Election and its Aftermath», https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/belarus-election-and-its-aftermath-expert-analysis, August 13, 2020

9. Oleg Manaev, «Elections in Belarus», Current Time, August 5, 2020, WATCH (26-32 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcoqoxMsPgA

10. Oleg Manaev, "The Womanly Face of Protest", Current Time, July 18, 2020, svoboda.org, WATCH (3-6 min)

11. Oleg Manaev, "About the role of sociological surveys in electoral campaigns", Current Time, July 14, 2020, WATCH

12. Oleg Manaev, "How people vote on the web, and what the head of IISEPS thinks of rating", Салiдарнасць, June 8, 2020, READ

13. Oleg Manaev, "I still don't see the signs of system's failure", Radio Svoboda, June 8, 2020, READ

14. Oleg Manaev "25 years of Alexander Lukashenko's rule: from the Belarusian "Robin Hood" - to the "Nottingham Sheriff", June 23, 2019, Full text

15. Oleg Manaev "About dividing Belarus", April 16, 2019

16. Oleg Manaev, “About emigration to the USA, Trump, and new pro-Moscow dictator in Belarus”, Svaboda, July 21, 2018

17. Oleg Manaev, “It is not worth illusions that changing the president will necessarily lead to changes”, Naviny.by, August 13, 2017 

18. Oleg Manaev, “IISEPS does not plan to return to Belarus in the short term”, BelaPAN, August 12, 2017

19. Oleg Manaev, “Life and work in the USA”, Belarusian week, August 10, 2017

20. Oleg Manaev, “Society in Belarus legitimizes Lukashenko's power”, Deutsche Welle, July 11, 2017

21. Oleg Manaev, “WAPOR justified IISEPS: It's not us, but BT and the special services behind it use falsifications”, Solidarity, December 23, 2016

22. Oleg Manaev “IISEPS did not falsify survey data!”, Belarusian Partisan, December 22, 2016

23. Oleg Manaev, “Polling organization in exile suspends conducting polls in Belarus”, BelaPAN, August 10, 2016

24. Oleg Manaev, “Lukashenko for Belarusians is a bird in hands”, Voice of America, September 12, 2015

25. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus: Elections-2015”, 5 interviews, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, January-July 2015 DOWNLOAD

26. Oleg Manaev, “Ukraine-Russia crisis significantly affected Belarusians”, EuroRadio, October 20, 2014

27. Oleg Manaev, “Prihodnost Belorusije je se vedno odprta”, Reporter (Ljubljana, Slovenia), October 6, 2014 DOWNLOAD, English

28. Oleg Manaev, "On average salary in Belarus", ARU TV, September 19, 2014, WATCH

29. Oleg Manaev, “The state of Belarusian society”, PRIMUS.BY, July 29, 2014

30. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusians turned on social-political reverse”, Deutsche Welle, April 18, 2014

31. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusian society’s attitudes to the state-run and non-state media”, TUT.BY, January 30, 2014

32. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus needs bourgeois-democratic revolution”, Gazeta, January 23, 2014 

33. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusians are disappointed of unrealized expectations”, Euro Radio, January 14, 2014 

34. Oleg Manaev, “US-Russia Relations Today”, East Tennessee TV, Knoxville, September 25, 2013

35. Oleg Manaev, “Peculiarities of Belarusian Regime”, East Tennessee Radio, Knoxville, September 23, 2013 

36. Oleg Manaev, “Split of the Society is Lukashenko’s Main Historical Fault”, Deutsche Welle, July 24, 2013 

37. Oleg Manaev, “From Philosophy of Barricades to Philosophy of Co-Existence”, Mediakritika, March 18, 2013 

38. Oleg Manaev, “What Belarusians Think?” Belarus Digest, January 18, 2013

39. Oleg Manaev "Even after Lukashenko most part of present opposition leaders will not see power as their own ears", Belgazeta, December 3, 2012 DOWNLOAD

40. Oleg Manaev, “Trust Is Back”, Belorusy i Rynok, April 9, 2012

41. Oleg Manaev, “Ruling Class Needs Funding, Not Suggestions”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, March 21, 2012

42. Oleg Manaev, “Vacillating” Majority is Not Interested in Politics”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, December 28, 2011

43. Oleg Manaev, “The Divided Society”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, February-March, 2011 DOWNLOAD

44. Oleg Manaev, “Gloomy Autumn”, Narodnaya Volya, September 30, 2011 

45. Oleg Manaev. “Collapse”, Narodnaya Volya, June 28, 2011 

46. Oleg Manaev, “Changes in Geo-Political Attitudes towards EU Shouldn’t be Overestimated”, Deutsche Welle, April 8, 2011   

47. Oleg Manaev "To lean to think", InfoCom, December 2010 DOWNLOAD

48. Oleg Manaev, “Presidential Campaign-2010: Electoral “Landscape”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, October 17, 2010  

49. Oleg Manaev, “Key Word for this Elections Should be “Perspectives”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, October 4, 2010  

50. Oleg Manaev, “No Pretensions”, Narodnaya Volya, June 27, 2010

51. Oleg Manaev, "Religious renaissance in post-Soviet Belarus did not lead to a change in values", Deutsche Welle, January 7, 2010 DOWNLOAD

52. Oleg Manaev, “Lukashenko today protects interests of officials and big business”, Deutsche Welle, August 13, 2009 

53. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus in “the Disinformation Circle”, New Europe, June 14, 2007 

54. Oleg Manaev, “Public Opinion in Belarus will be Determined by the Sate”, Belarusian Partisan, March 6, 2007 

55. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus and European Union: Matrix of Reality”, Belaruski Rynok, February 26, 2007  

56. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusian Choice”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, January 7, 14, 21, 2007 DOWNLOAD

57. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus: 15 years of Independence”, Gazeta, December 18, 2006

58. Oleg Manaev,"The long echo of Chernobyl", IISEPS News N 2, 2006 DOWNLOAD

59. Oleg Manaev, “EU should target Belarus arms trade”, EUobserver, March 29, 2006

60. Oleg Manaev at all, “Belarus-2006: Paths to Changes”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, January 19, 2006 DOWNLOAD

61. Oleg Manaev, “Foes Around?” Zerkalo, October 5, 2005

62. Oleg Manaev, "All ages are submissive obscene language", Zerkalo, N 10, 2005 DOWNLOAD

63. Oleg Manaev, “Long-lasting Echo of National Referendum”, Zgoda, N 10, 2005 DOWNLOAD

64. Oleg Manaev, "Reconstruction of the concept of corruption and its measurement", IISEPS News N 2, 2005 DOWNLOAD

65. Oleg Manaev, “Unfair Power itself Pushes People to revolution”, Narodnaya Volya, April 1, 2005

66. Oleg Manaev, “Relay of Freedom”, SME (Bratislava), March 13, 2005

67. Oleg Manaev, “Orange Prospects” for Belarus”, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, January 9, 2005

68. Oleg Manaev, “Women’s Features of Belarusian Alternative”, Zgoda, December 17, 2004

69. Oleg Manaev, “Electoral Resources for President Lukashenko”, Zerkalo, November 5, 2004

70. Oleg Manaev, “Modern Features of Belarusian Elite”, Zgoda, September 29, 2004

71. Oleg Manaev, “How to Push Belarusians for Changes?” Svobodnye Novosti plus, August 11, 2004

72. Oleg Manaev, “Silent revolution” or How a Structure of Belarusian Society is Changing”, Narodnaya Volya, July 15, 2004

73. Oleg Manaev, “Four Pillars of President Lukashenko’s Power”, Vremya Novostey (Moscow), July 8, 2004

74. Oleg Manaev, "Belarusians at home: with alcohol, but without sex", Express News, 2 July 2004

75. Oleg Manaev , “Newest Trends of Internet Use in Belarus”, www.tut.by, July 1, 2004

76. Oleg Manaev, “Notorious Disappearances as Factor of Authorities’ De-Legitimization”, Svobodnye Novosti plus, April 29, 2004

77. Oleg Manaev, "Where does a single state ideology lead Belarus?" Zgoda, April 4, 2004 DOWNLOAD

78. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus-Russia: Doomed to Friendship?” Svobodnye Novosti plus, December 12, 2003

79. Oleg Manaev, “Rating as factor of Political Mobilization”, Svobodnye Novosti plus, October 18, 2003

80. Oleg Manaev, “Where Belarusian Voters Have Been Lost?” Volny Chas, June 17, 2003 DOWNLOAD

81. Oleg Manaev, “OCSE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus: Mission Impossible?” Narodnaya Volya, May 15, 2002

82. Oleg Manaev, “Quest for the Lost Alternative”, Svobodnye Novosti, April 20, 2002

83. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusian Electorate: navigation for Candidates for Presidency”, IISEPS News, 2002, 1-2-3: 5-21

84. Oleg Manaev, "IISEPS: ten years of struggle for the right on independent judgment", Belarus Today, February 4, 2002 DOWNLOAD

85. Oleg Manaev, “Post-Communist Dilemma: Aristocracy vs. Democracy or New Challenges to Media and Politics”, Svobodnye Novosti, December 2, 2001

86. Oleg Manaev, “Presidential Elections: What Really Has Happened?” Svobodnye Novosti, November 9, 2001

87. Oleg Manaev, “Presidential Elections: Probable Scenario”, Svobodnye Novosti plus, December 23, 2000

88. Oleg Manaev, “Parliamentary Elections: Landscape after the Battle”, Narodnaya Volya, October 27, 2000

89. Oleg Manaev, “Information and Communication Technologies between Public and the State Determine Future of the Country”, in Zvyazda, September 21, 2000

90. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus-2000: Why there are no Changes?”, 5 interviews, Svobodnye Novosti Plus, August-September 2000 DOWNLOAD

91. Oleg Manaev, “Future President in Belarusians’ Ideas” in Nasha Svaboda, August 21, 2000

92. Oleg Manaev, “Electoral Resources of Belarusian Democracy”, Brestski Kurier, August 18, 2000

93. Oleg Manaev, “Rule of Law a-la Belarus”, in De-facto, March 29, 2000

94. Oleg Manaev, “Technology of Development of Information-Analytical Infrastructure for Private Enterprise”, in Public Word, October 25, 1999

95. Oleg Manaev, “Public Economic Attitudes as Factor of Social Development”, Belaruski Rynok, March 18, 1999

96. Oleg Manaev and Roger Alworth, “Belarusian Scholar Believes Russia Needs Marshall Plan”, in Enterprise Record (Chico), September 5, 1998 DOWNLOAD

97. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus Non-State TV and its Audience”, Belaruski Rynok, January 31, 1998

98. Oleg Manaev, “Both Authorities and Public Need Unbiased Information”, in News, February 27, 1998

99. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus as Detonator for Europe” in Svaboda, September 23, 1997

100. Oleg Manaev, «On the Thin Ice: Sociological Portrait of President Lukashenko’s Electorate», in Beloruskaya Delovaya Gazeta, September 1, 1997. 

101. Oleg Manaev, “Both the State and the Public Need Independent think tanks”, Zvyazda, February 7, 1997 

102. Oleg Manaev, “There are Opinion Leaders in Belarus, and One Should Listen to them”, in Zvyazda, November 21, 1996

103. Oleg Manaev, “Belarusian Authorities in the Mirror of Public Opinion”, in Svaboda, July 2, 1996

104. Oleg Manaev, “A Few Could Do Politics but Everyone Should Participate in “Civil Construction”, in Zvyazda, November 16, 1995 DOWNLOAD

105. Oleg Manaev, “Belarus through US Students Eyes”, in Minsk Economic News, November 18, 1994 DOWNLOAD

106. Oleg Manaev, “Soros Foundation: Strategy for Belarus”, in Narodnaya Gazeta, November 12, 1994 DOWNLOAD

107. Oleg Manaev, “Lost Belarusians: on the Role of Opinion Polls in Social Development”, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, July 5, 1992 DOWNLOAD

108. Oleg Manaev and Olga Wojtas, “Gloomy Reality behind the Great Lie”, the Times Higher (London), December 13, 1991

109. Oleg Manaev and Yuri Drakokhrust, “What Belarusian Popular Front should be?” in Soglasiye, October 29, 1990 DOWNLOAD