- Home
- About
-
Staff
- Commentaries by FPS Staff
- Rusakovich Andrei Vladimirovich
- Rozanov Anatoliy Arkadievich
- Research Briefs
- Tihomirov Alexander Valentinovich
- Shadurski Victor Gennadievich
- Sidorchuk Valery Kirillovich
- Brovka Gennady Mikhailovich
- Gancherenok Igor Ivanovich
- Malevich Ulianna Igorevna
- Prannik Tatiana Alexandrovna
- Selivanov Andrey Vladimirovich
- Sharapo Alexander Victorovich
- Testimonials
-
Conference Proceedings
- Amber Coast Transport Initiative Project Concept
- Nato and Belarus - partnership, past tensions and future possibilities
- OSCE High-Level Seminar on Military Doctrine
- Poland-Belarus: perspectives of cross-border cooperation
- Polish-Belarussian Transborder Customs Cooperation: сurrent Problems and Challenges
-
Reports
- We see the significant reduction of the U.S. Army in Europe
- NATO's International Security Role
- International seminar on issues in the Collective Security Treaty Organization
- Belarus-Turkey: The ways of cooperation - 2011
- Belarus - Poland: two decades of international relations
- Belarus-Turkey: The ways of cooperation - 2009
- International seminar Belarusian Diaspora: Past and Present
- The first Round Table
-
News Releases
- The conference on Overcoming the financial crisis
- Round Table on history and future of Belarus-Poland cooperation
- Seminar on Belarusian diaspora: past and present
- The conference on Belarus in the Modern World
- The conference on Economic, legal and informational aspects of cooperation in customs sphere
- Comments
- Contact
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday 1st August at a meeting with a youth movement in favor of power, he favored a merger of Russia and Belarus into a single state.
Asked by a participant of the movement Nashi on the possibility of a state uniting the two countries "as in the USSR," Putin said: "It's possible, very desirable and depends entirely on the will of the Belarusian people. " In response, the participant said that the Belarusian people wanted. "Then you fight for it," said Mr. Putin.
Since 1997, Russia and Belarus already form a Union, created to expand Moscow's influence over its neighbor. Power sharing between the two countries in this union, however, is still not defined and the penalty structure to materialize. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are also grouped in a customs union.
Economic stranglehold
Belarus, former Soviet Republic to the command economy, is currently facing its worst financial crisis since coming to power of Alexander Lukashenko there are about seventeen years. The autocrat faces an abysmal trade deficit and a shortage of foreign exchange.
Minsk in June received a loan of three billion dollars over three years with partners in the former USSR, including Russia, which should help him out of the financial crisis in which it is immersed for months. But Moscow has made it a condition that the country makes significant privatization and is positioned at the top to gain the most beautiful Belarusian assets. Meanwhile, the European Union and the United States has imposed sanctions on Minsk due to repression by the regime against the opposition, many leaders have been jailed since the presidential election in December.
THE UNITED STATES "parasites" THE WORLD ECONOMY
On another subject, Vladimir Putin, who lend some ambition to return to the presidency of the Russian Federation, on Monday accused the United States to "interfere" in the global economy. In light striped shirt without a tie, the strong man of Russia ruled on questions of international politics by walking between the tents Nachi, created when he was president and which is held every years on the shores of Lake Seliguer.
The United States "living on credit beyond their means and are basing some of the burden of debt on the world economy. They infect the global economy by using the monopoly of the dollar," at he said. The compromise reached at the last minute Sunday night on raising the U.S. debt ceiling but has not yet been passed by Congress "did defer decision making to address the merits" at he said. However, he praised "the responsibility and common sense" in Washington that avoided a default that he said could "undermine" the Russian economy as it has "a significant portion of its reserves in dollars" .
This article was automatically translated from French to English using Yahoo Translater. See Original at below link
