Belarus is taking Russia to court. It may...
on the eve of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin"s visit to Belarus. While in Venezuela, Lukashenko signed an oil purchase agreement.Lukashenko himself describes these zigzags as "diversifying exports and relationships." That would be reasonable enough on its own, but the fact is such an attitude turns the Russia-Belarus Union State into a flimsy paper edifice with a bureaucratic top and nothing else propping it up. Lukashenko, in fact, only seems to remember about the Union State when it is convenient for him - for example, when he does not want to pay import duties or wants a discount on gas. Then he starts to "diversify." He is even prepared to make overtures to Western countries, whose political class calls him "the last dictator in Europe."
The fact that Lukashenko is not offended by this is his own personal business and an internal matter for Belarus.
But "lapses of memory" are inadmissible in a partnership, especially if unification is the
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