Around 2006, the first signs of neutrality began to appear in Belarusian foreign and national security policies. This trend has increased in the past decade. For a long time, these elements of neutrality were misinterpreted as Minsk opportunistically moving back and forth between Moscow and the West or tactically balancing different directions of its policy. Yet by the mid-2010s, these elements of neutrality became a reliable part of Belarusian foreign and national security policy. This naturally leads one to question whether neutrality is a viable option for the future development of the Belarusian state. For the purposes of this study, neutrality is defined on the basis of modern-time political practice rather than formal legal concepts. Therefore, neutrality here means policies aimed at maintaining distance from political and military blocks and parties to conflicts, although this distance differs depending on specific circumstances. It may include formal membership in associations of political and military integration, as well as bilateral security-related arrangements, as long as they do not crucially affect the international position of the country.