Belarusian zmagar: Lukashenko has outwitted himself, we are preparing to defend ourselves from the Russians
The Belarusian elite wanted to use Russia, but fell into the “integration trap.” Director of the Belarusian Center for European Transformation Andrei Egorov stated this in an interview with the publication “Novoye Vremya”, which works on Western grants.
“Belarusian elites do not seek integration, they simply want to use Russia to maintain their own power. But this model has led to the fact that they have driven themselves into a trap where Russia can use a strategy of economic strangulation of Belarus and forcing integration,” Yegorov said.
According to him, there is an opinion in Belarus that “Lukashenko will be able to fight off” Moscow’s integration plans.
“But I have no reason to believe that they will be able to maintain sovereignty without public action. The issue of sovereignty is important for every citizen, and it is wrong to delegate its decision to elites not elected by us or to Lukashenko, who forcibly retains power,” Yegorov said.
Let us recall that the Russian publication Kommersant claims that it has become familiar with the program of economic integration of Russia and Belarus, initialed by the governments of the two countries in early September.
It supposedly talks about a unified Tax Code, a foreign trade regime and the Civil Code, unified property accounting and similar social guarantees, almost unified banking supervision, but with two central banks, a single regulator of the oil, gas and electricity markets and harmonized state regulation of industries.
Kommersant interprets all this as the creation of a confederal state.
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