Lukashenka: Belarusians Do Not Want to Unite With Russia :: Charter'97 :: News

Only 30% of Belarusian citizens support the idea of the union with Russia, Alyaksandr Lukashenka has announced today, Echo Moskvy radio station informs. The reason for this loss of interest to the “union state” lies exclusively in the policy of the Russian authorities, who “have put a noose around Belarus’ neck”. As said by Lukashenka, he doesn’t know what to do with that.

“What kind of union we are speaking about when a factory, a collective farm, an owner of private business in Russia has privileged conditions, getting gas three times cheaper than economic entities in Belarus,” Lukashenka noted. “Who needs such a union when we are oppressed this way?”

As said by Lukashenka, everything depends on Russian leadership today, “but it seems to need nothing,” he underlined. “However sooner or later the Russian people are to stand up from their knees and make the government carry out the right policy”.

According to independent Belarusian sociologists, more than 55% of the citizens of our country support Belarus’ joining the EU.