6 December 2001 MINSK, 4 December (BelaPAN)–Russia is not ready to reunite with Belarus as closely as the Union State Treaty suggests, Belarusian Prime Minister Gennady Novitsky said on 4 December while commenting on last week’s top-level talks in Moscow. According to Novitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin even offered his Belarusian counterpart, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, to make “certain departures” from the […]

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