Researches about Ukraine

Belarus Redoubles Efforts to Connect With the World

The Jamestown Foundation

While the outcome of this past month’s presidential elections in Belarus continues to be discussed, the major news refrains have become the debate on a Russian airbase in Belarus, rapprochement with the West, the prospects for economic reform, and labor migration to and from Belarus.
During an improvised briefing at a Minsk voting precinct on election day, October 11, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka opined that there is no need for a Russian airbase in Belarus; it would have been better if Moscow helped Minsk to renovate Belarus’s own fleet of warplanes. Alexander Alesin, a military expert, believes Lukashenka’s words signaled the …read more

Source: The Jamestown Foundation

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