Russian-Belarusian gas problems are really caused by the desire of the Russian oligarchs to ”privatize” Belarus, head of the analytical center “Ekoom” Sergei Musienko declared on commenting the statement of the head of the Belarusian state A. Lukashenka that Russia would like to ”privatize” the whole Belarus.

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Today behind the back of the Belarusian people the illegal tacit bargaining is underway which may result in selling the national wealth and sovereignty out. It is another time that the citizens of Belarus have become hostages of the autocratic regime failure of pursuing responsible and effective internal and external policy; it is said in the declaration of one of the leaders of the democratic forces of Belarus Alyaksandr Milinkevich.

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“Belarus has incredibly large outstanding debts to foreign companies. That makes us consider that Belarus is short of money and it really has nothing to pay with”, the analyst of the British research center “Global Insight” Natalia Leschenko says.

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The Belgazprombank is going to raise around USD 500 million for repaying the debt for the gas delivered to Belarus in the first half of the year, it was reported by chairman of the management board of the Belgazprombank Viktar Babaryka at the press-conference yesterday.

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Independent Belarusian trade union (SPB) called the government of Belarus for immediate implementation of the International Labor Organization’s recommendations.

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Minsk , capital of Belarus ,is not likely to have realized that joking with Russia is not safe .But be they may well understand that the two states are at the brink of the so called “gas war”. This week the Gazprom is to partially block the gas flow the Die Tageszeitung’s journalist Barbara Oertel writes in her news story.

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