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Putin’s support for Lukashenko despite international pressure

His Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, received today (28/05) in Sochi the Vladimir Putin. In fact, the President of Russia praised the “concrete results” of the rapprochement with Minsk.

“We are building a strengthened Union” in between Russia and Belarus“We are moving steadily in this direction (…) and this project is already bringing concrete results for our citizens,” Putin said. However, such a thing “should not be done in a hurry”.

The Russian president described as “Emotional outburst” of what happened around Belarus following the forced landing of a Ryanair aircraft in Minsk; where dissident journalist Roman Protasevic was arrested.

Also, according to the APE-MPE, referring to the forced landing of the plane of the Bolivian president in 2013 at the Vienna airport, he said that from the West there was no reaction then.

Finally, Putin suggested to the Belarusian president to swim in the sea, which in Sochi – as he said – is getting warmer, expressing the belief that this period of time “will also contribute to the achievement of results” of the meeting.

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