15 November 1997span> ALYAKSANDR LUKASHENKA “is misinforming the public in Belarus, saying that he is in favor of economic integration;” in fact he “simply needs a sort of halo of a person who is in favor of unification of the Slavic peoples,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Boris Nemtsov said in an interview published in the independent magazine Belo-russkaya delovaya gazeta. […]

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