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The article analyzes the functioning of pro-Russian propaganda Internet media in the Republic of Belarus, which testifies to their purposeful activities designed to promote integration narratives in the country's information space. It is concluded that the rhetoric used by Russian and pro-Russian Belarusian Internet media is essentially the same and does not differ significantly depending on the considered source of propaganda. It has been determined that the information impact is carried out using a set of identical theses, techniques and formulations that justify the commonality of history, culture and the need for the unity of the Belarusian and Russian peoples. It is noted that the actual identification of Belarusian national interests with Russian interests is used to justify the necessity and inevitability of Belarus' civilizational choice in favor of Russia.

The next phase of Russian aggression against Ukraine demonstrated that despite lacking a large military, territorial, population, or raw material potential, Belarus could play a significant role in the project to construct a new regional, continental, and even global security architecture. The purpose of this article is to discuss the problem of repositioning Belarus, which was affected not only by the multidimensional change in Belarusian-Ukrainian relations as a result of the war but also by long-term efforts to elevate Belarusian-EU relations. In this area, the fundamental research question is whether the war in Ukraine, the breach of the so-called Budapest Memorandum and the deepening of the multifaceted Russian-Belarusian integration within the Union State (including the militarisation of Belarus and the allocation of tactical nuclear weapons) will cause the projects for the redefinition of Belarus-EU relations (which are instrumental in reducing the intensity of political turbulence in the region) to disappear from the EU diplomatic agenda for a long time, with a direct negative impact on the future of European security. The article verifies the hypothesis that due to the specificity of the Belarusian authoritarian model, despite the systematically deepening Russian-Belarusian integration and the ever-expanding sanctions policy towards Belarus, (2) due to the shape of Belarusian-Ukrainian relations after 2014 and the periodically satisfactory Belarusian-EU relations, (1) there are still prospects for Belarus to pursue foreign policy diversification and repositioning of the European vector in it.

Продвижение идей "русского мира" – центральный элемент идеологического влияния России в Беларуси. В результате нарративы, призванные продвигать эту концепцию, активно распространяются в белорусском информационном пространстве. Целенаправленное информационное воздействие осуществляется через сеть пророссийских интернет-ресурсов с использованием характерного набора тезисов, приемов и формулировок, обосновывающих общую историю, национальное, языковое родство и необходимость объединения белорусского и русского народов. Подобные тезисы имеют место в контексте белорусской академической гуманитарной науки, которая часто, следуя советской традиции, идеологически служит политическим лозунгам современных пророссийских (в том числе проправительственных) кругов в Беларуси посредством своеобразной интерпретации исторических фактов и их адаптации к современным общественно-политическим процессам. Конечная цель исследуемых информационных сообщений – навязать белорусскому обществу идею об безальтернативности пророссийского вектора развития внешней политики Республики Беларусь и отрицать факт русификации белорусов.

A characteristic trend of the contemporary information space of Belarus is the promotion of narratives of the «Russian world». In parallel with the penetration and dissemination of relevant ideas in the Belarusian media, studies devoted to the study of the concept of the «Russian world» are beginning to appear in Belarusian historiography. Some Belarusian researchers try to adapt the ideas of the Russian world to the contemporary political realities of Belarus. This is manifested in the use of theses about a common history, the imposition of beliefs that Belarusians and Russians are one people, and Russian is the native language for Belarusians. Such theses take place in the context of the Belarusian academic humanities, which often, following the Soviet tradition, ideologically serves the political slogans of contemporary pro-Russian (including pro-government) circles in Belarus through a peculiar interpretation of historical facts and their adaptation to nowadays socio-political processes. At the same time, it is also worth noting the presence of different, more academic views, interpretations and approaches that take place when Belarusian researchers try to study and comprehend this phenomenon.