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On 13 December, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proclaimed that Russia and Belarus may introduce a single currency. Various officials from both countries have regularly proclaimed such intentions since 1993.

There has been no result to these back and forth in the past ( Read more... )

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On 31 December 2012 Alexander Lukashenka announced that Belarus had become "a space nation". In other words, it had entered a club of countries having their own guided objects in space.

The Belarusian ruler meant the launch of the first Belarusian satellite that took place on ( Read more... )