Sofie Bedford (2017). „"The Election Game": Authoritarian Consolidation Processes in Belarus“. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. 25 (4): 381–305. ციტატა: „officially the [EU] sanctions were reduced as a 'reward' for the 2015 presidential elections being peaceful and non-violent, despite the fact that these elections were just as non-democratic as any previous election in Belarus“