Lukashenko will face “tense negotiations” with Putin at the Victory Parade
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will have “tense negotiations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where the Belarusian president will attend the Victory Parade on June 24.
The editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexey Venediktov, stated this on his radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There were conversations on the phone, and they were quite tense. The unfortunate Lavrov was delegated from Belgrade directly to Minsk. To prepare for this conversation. And of course, now President Putin’s favorite company, Gazprom, is formally legally involved in this story. Which owns Gazprom Bank. Around which all this is happening. Of course, there will be negotiations. They will be serious and not formal,” Venediktov said.
Let us remind you that Lukashenko calls his main competitor in the presidential elections, Viktor Babariko, a protege of Gazprom. Therefore, the Belarusian National Bank has directed its administration to Belgzprombank, which belongs to the Russian corporation. Babariko, as the former head of this bank, was arrested for economic crimes.
After this, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the interests of the country's largest companies “are always under the protection of the Russian state.”
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