Author: Grigory V. Ioffe

Grigory Ioffe is a professor in the Geospatial Science program at Radford University. He is the author of Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark (2008) and of Reassessing Lukashenka: Belarus in Geopolitical and Cultural Context (2014). He has also published several peer-refereed articles and a couple hundred essays about Belarus for the Eurasia Daily Monitor, the flagship publication of the Jamestown Foundation. Vitali Silitski directed the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies. He was a civil activist and a blogger. He co-authored the last edition of Historical Dictionary of Belarus, Second Edition (2007). He passed away at the age of 38 from kidney cancer.