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A new Eurasian union is born

November 29, 2011 Ekaterina Shokhina, Expert Magazine
International trade Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia form an alliance

Red Line: Belarus financial crisis, Russia mediates in Libya and Ratko Mladic

June 9, 2011 Ekaterina Kudashkina, Mira Salganik, Sergei Strokan, Voice of Russia
Each week, Voice of Russia hosts Red Line, a discussion about the events of the week, as seen from Moscow. This week, the financial crisis in Belarus, Russia mediates in Libya and Ratko Mladic is arrested.

“There are no excuses”

April 13, 2011 Kommersant
Conflicting theories about how Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko could take political advantage of the recent attack in the Minsk Metro abound

Belarus Free Theater shares the love

January 5, 2011 Anna Nemtsova, special to Russia Beyond the Headlines
The founders of Belarus Free Theater believe their job is to act with love and without censorship, while the authorities believe their job is to arrest them.

Belarusian officials, activists protest Russian TV report on Lukashenka

July 9, 2010
NTV's broadcast on July 4 of the Lukashenka documentary, titled "The Godfather," described the unpleasant sides of Lukashenka's personality

Belarus adamant in oil export dispute

July 7, 2010 Olga Tanas, Aliya Samigullina, Gazeta.ru
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus signed a new Customs Code during a summit of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEc) in the Kazakh capital of Astana.

Belarus backs down on gas payments

June 22, 2010 bne
Russia's latest "Gas War" indicates a change in both foreign and economic policy.

Paradoxes of russian-byelorussian relations

September 25, 2009 Nikolai Mezhevich, professor of St. Petersburg State University, Doctor of Economics
Post-Soviet space, like post-Soviet history, is full of paradoxes. The collapse of the USSR was initiated in what was then Soviet Byelorussia

EU's "Eastern partnership" and Russia-Belarus relations

December 19, 2008 Svyatoslav Polkhov, Expert of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation, Moscow, Eurasian Home
The European Union assumes the offensive

Abkhazia looks to join Belarus-Russia alliance

September 11, 2008 Russia Today
President Sergey Bagapsh, of the newly independent republic of Abkhazia, has announced it will apply to join the Union of Russia and Belarus.