On March 31, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka gave a two-hour interview to Ryan Chilcote, a Russian-speaking London-based reporter for Bloomberg Television (YouTube, April 2). Most, if not all, media commentaries initially singled out Lukashenka’s particular suggestion that the United States ought to join the negotiations aiming at a resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. “[W]ithout America,” he asserted, “no stability is possible” in that post-Soviet country. “The United States plays a decisive role […] both in terms of domestic processes in Ukraine and in terms of expediency to sit down and negotiate with Russians,” the Belarusian president argued. Such statements …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation