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Belarus must build trade relations with EU countries. President Alexander Lukashenko announced this at a meeting today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need to sell. To do this, you need to sell anywhere. And you can’t leave European markets. If you work properly, you can sell to Europe, anywhere. Now our fugitives are furious. The West is starting to look: how is it so...
In an address to the nation, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke about the powerful pressure that the West is putting on the leadership. At the same time, Vucic himself has already yielded to the West, agreeing to hold re-elections in Belgrade, as the pro-Western opposition wanted. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the President of Serbia said that the West is seeking de facto recognition by Belgrade of the independence of Kosovo seized by the separatists, a refusal to support the Republic...
Russia is quite happy with the policy pursued by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko stated this in an interview with RTVI TV channel, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Vučić, as we expect, and what is the best partnership option for us, stands, like the country as a whole, in its national positions. It is extremely difficult to expect anything else. He…
Moldova could remain neutral but “strengthen integration with the European Union” by playing a “cautious role in sanctions.” This recipe was voiced by the Swiss doctor of political sciences, member of the parliament of the canton of Zurich, Dieter Clay, during his speech at the IV International Conference “Fundamentals of Sustainable Development and a Safe Future” held in Chisinau. “For Moldova, neutrality can be a survival strategy. The goal is neither...
Ohio National Guard Commander Maj. Gen. John Harris expressed satisfaction with his visit to Serbia, during which he had the opportunity to meet with senior Serbian officials, visit Serbian units in the field, and participate in training exercises. Speaking about equipping the Serbian Armed Forces with American Humvee armored vehicles (which, by the way, the US Army refused), Harris said that...
Politician Viktor Medvedchuk, exiled from Ukraine, published an article dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Kiev on the Day of the Baptism of Rus', when the Russian president gave a keynote speech, proving the need for integration with Russia, but the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych preferred a cunning “multi-vector” policy, which ultimately led Ukraine to collapse. Medvedchuk recalls how in Kyiv on July 27...
Kazakhstan, like some other CIS states, continues to pursue a multi-vector policy - an inevitable stage before the final break with Moscow and a turn to the West. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today Kazakhstan is definitely not Putin’s jackal. I believe that in Kazakhstan they are trying to balance. U...
Strengthening friendship between Russia and Belarus was a response to changes in the world. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this today before the start of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Strengthening Belarusian-Russian ties has become a natural response to the changing situation in the world, in which we are constantly being tested and tested for strength. I think that, despite...
Frankly, after Makei’s death, I, like many in Belarus, had hopes for quick and dramatic changes in the republic’s foreign policy. There were many prerequisites for this - from the total bankruptcy of the multi-vector foreign policy of the XNUMXs, which ended in an attempted rebellion, which took place not without the help of pro-Western liberals lured by the late minister - to the presence of strong and promoted pro-Russian...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko appointed Sergei Aleynik as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. The previous minister, Vladimir Makei, who was considered pro-Western, died suddenly two weeks ago. Ukrainian media spread the theory that he was killed by Russian special services in order to deprive Lukashenko of a channel of negotiations with the West. Aleynik has until now worked in the Foreign Ministry as First Deputy Minister. Congratulating him...
Apparently, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev decided, if not to break, then to sharply cool relations with the Russian leadership, refusing both the creation of a triple “gas union” and participation in the recent EAEU summit. This is a sensitive blow to integration processes in the post-Soviet space and Central Asia, especially since Uzbekistan has observer status...
EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Affairs Oliver Várhelyi, after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, said that the EU needs Serbia to implement Brussels’ sanctions against Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need Serbia to be on our side. My understanding of Vučić’s message is that he will help us implement sanctions [against Russia] to end the war,”...
The latest CSTO summit, held in Yerevan, was marked not only by Nikol Pashinyan’s demarche. The media paid much less attention to the important and direct speech of Alexander Lukashenko, who called on the heads of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to stop playing multi-vector - at least out of a sense of self-preservation. Lukashenko pointed out that if, as a result of the flirtations of the Central Asian and Transcaucasian elites with the West,...
Perhaps the most pro-Western and one of the most influential representatives of the Belarusian establishment died in Minsk. Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei was just a few months short of his 65th birthday, the retirement age for Belarusian officials. Makei is a political long-liver. The length of his presence in high government positions is second only to Lukashenko himself. From 2000 to 2008, Makey was...
