Valery Karbalevich from Belarus is a political scientist. Since 1997 Karbalevich has been working as a political observer for the newspaper “Svobodnye Novosti” and since 1999 also for RFE/RL (Belarusian service). He is the author of several 1000 articles, working papers and research papers. His biography of Aleksandr Lukashenka, which is not available in Belarus, has been published in Russia, France, and Poland.