Belarus seeks Russia's financial aid


Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Miasnikovich and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev discussed joint projects and ways to provide financial support for Belarus in a phone conversation on December 25, state-owned news agency BelTA reports.

The premiers of the two countries agreed to make coordinated economic decisions taking into consideration the global uncertainties. They noted that the Eurasian Economic Union would make it easier to ‘overcome the difficulties’. 

The agreement on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union is to come into force on January 1, 2015. According to Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, one of the main goals of the Union is ‘to become a pole of the contemporary world and play a role of the effective link between Europe and dynamic Asia-Pacific region’.

U.S. political scientist Zbigniew Brzeziński called the EEU ‘Russia’s new empire’.

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