Belarus–Russia relations
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07 June 2011
What Can Belarus Sell?
Russia, through the Eurasian Economic Community, has agreed to grant Belarus a USD 3bn loan, of which Belarus will only see USD 800m this month. The Belarusian government will only get the remaining amount, in two portions over the following two years, if it goes ahead with the privatisation of state...
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03 July 2010
Russia Is Not Willing to Pay for its Imperial Prestige
This week, after a bitter gas transit conflict with Belarusian government, Russian Gasprom declared that preliminary gas prices for Belarus next year should be about USD 250. Now it pays 185 dollars. Even some naïve oppositional analysts welcomed what they considered ‘European’ prices, joking of Lukashenka’s ‘stupid’ wish to live ‘of Russian cost...
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05 June 2010
Customs Union of Former Soviet Nations Fails Due to Total Absence of Mutual Trust
The post-Soviet integration and cooperation initiatives have an extremely unsuccessful track record. It seems that the problems persist. Recently, the very idea of Customs Union between Belarus, Russian Federation and Kazakhstan had been questioned, after the government of Belarus made clear its intent to insist on more tariffs exemptions, especially concerning Russian raw oil exported to...
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31 May 2010
How Low Can Minsk Go for Cheaper Energy?
To lower the price of Russian energy Belarus has tried pleas, threats, promises, and blackmail. Minsk set lowering the cost of imported energy as a condition to joining the Customs Union with Russia and Kazakhstan and last...
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03 July 2009
New York Times: Russia’s Neighbors Resist Wooing and Bullying
Today’s New York Times argues that Russia...
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