Contents // Introduction 7 // Vital Silitski, Dillemas of choice 9 // 1. What does Europe mean to you? 23 // 2. Is Belarus (as it is) part of Europe? May be it should strive for it? What Belarus should do to achieve that goal? (Do you consider European community based // on common values or a geographic location?) 37 // 3. What can Belarus offer Europe? 61 // 4- Should Belarus make a strategic choice? // If it should, should it seek closer ties with Russia, the European Union (EU) or former Soviet republics? // Are these choices mutually exclusive? // What should be done to put them into practice? 81 // 5. Does Belarusian identity exist? If it does, // how to characterize it? What is a Belarusian identity? // What does it mean to be a Belarusian? Ill // 6. Does the notion’ Slavic communityâ/âcommunity of former // Soviet peoplesâ exist? 137 // 7. What do you think of Russiaâs policies // with regard to Belarus? 159 // 8. What do you think about the policies // of other neighbors with regard to Belarus? 177 // 9- What do you think of the European Unionâs policies with regard to Belarus? 195 // Andrey Kazakevich, Four corporations of Belarusian elite 219 // Biographical notes 229