Image by RIA Novosti Russia may install temporary border crossing checkpoints with Belarus. Since the two nations are the only two members of The Union State, set up after the fall of the Soviet Union, border crossings have been mostly nonexistent. However, during a recent financial dispute over payment of…
NATO Sending 3 Monitors To Zapad War Games, Demands More “About 200 people held an unauthorized rally in Minsk on September 8 to protest against joint Belarusian-Russian military exercises, dubbed Zapad 2017 (West 2017), which are scheduled to be held in Belarus and parts of western Russia on September 14-20,”…
Belarus Opposition Figure Arrested, Sentenced To 15 Days In Jail.
Image by Mac9 The governments of Moldova and Belarus will hold talks to commemorate 25 years of relations in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, in November of this year. The matter was discussed at a meeting between Belarus’ Ambassador to Moldova Sergei Chichuk and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and…
Belarus Says It Will Remain Close Strategic Allies With Moscow.
Image by kremlin.ru President Lukashenko of Belarus, notoriously called ‘Europe’s last dictator,’ says his armed forces need to be modernized. It seems the American missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, and of course Moscow, is pressuring the president of ‘White Rus’ to spend money on his military. “There is an…
Russia and Belarus announced today they have settled their energy payment dispute which had led to heightened tensions between the two member of the Union State. The conflict had led to Russia even tightening border restrictions as bad blood over late Belarusian energy debts continued to rise. It seems Russia…
Belarus To Host Joint Military Exercises In September With Russian Forces.
The ‘Last Dictator In Europe’ Lukashenko Rescinds Parasite Tax In Rare Loss.
Belarus Urges Moscow To Exclude “Bookkeeping” From Relationship With Minsk.