Russia should join its smaller neighbor Belarus rather than forcing Minsk to join Moscow’s orbit, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko quipped Tuesday, days after the latest round of integration talks between the two ex-Soviet allies.
The Moscow Times: Lukashenko jokes ‘Russia is a part of Belarus’
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Saint Petersburg on July 18, 2019.
