The Russian Expansion: Tricolor, Mercedes and a Three-Fold Increase in Salary
Originally published at Belarus Digest. Please leave any comments there.
November and December events clearly show that Russia's policies towards Belarus are dictated primarily not by economic considerations but political. Russia is willing to spend billions of dollars in subsidies to keep the status quo in Belarus. The European Union, on the other hand, is more and more busy with its own problems, the most important of which is the crisis of the Eurozone.
In the coming year, Russia will increase the amount of economic support to Lukashenka's regime. Apart from the significant discount in the gas price, the Belarusian side will benefit from refining larger volume of Russian crude oil.
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