Belarus.Russia

Belarus and Russia leaders' talks confirm the high pace of integration

23 december 2022
BELTA
The talks between Belarus and Russia leaders, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, confirmed the high pace of integration and enormity of the challenge that the Union State faces. Such opinion was expressed to BelTA by Dmitry Golubnichy, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, as he commented on the talks between the two presidents. ...

More mobile together: will Belarus be able to help Russia expand trade ties

15 august 2022
Izvestia
Despite the closure of the most important export channels to European markets, Russia and Belarus have the potential to create non-standard logistics corridors. This will facilitate promoting products to the sub-sanctioned markets. Izvestia, together with experts, figured out how the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus can help each other in overcoming logistical gaps and c...

Cooperation, senses, demography and education. Makarov presented trends of the Union State in the fu...

21 june 2022
Belarus today
Speaking at the meeting of the Belarusian-Russian expert track, Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, outlined the main trends of the future that should be taken into consideration in the further construction of the Union State. In his words, as we face the future, there remain the convergence of national socio-political models. Regionalization is a...

Increasing trade and economic ties with Asian countries is needed in the context of sanctions war de...

12 march 2022
Belarus today
The "Pivot to Asia" as a moment of truth The West’s collective reflection of the events in Ukraine draws a line under the 30-year era of Russia's search for its place in the western-centric world. But history teaches us that "everything passes. This too shall pass" (eternal words on the Solomon's ring). After some time, the shock, pain and other emotions will be settled and the time...

Views of small countries must be heard in global decisions

31 january 2020
Belarus Segodnya
"The spool is small, but expensive" is a truth that is quite applicable in geopolitics. History knows many examples when small and compact states achieved significant political and socio-economic successes, both in alliance with large countries and independently. And this is an interesting phenomenon of political science, the relevance of which does not decrease even in the 21st centu...

The position of Russian oil companies devalues the achievements in the construction of the union sta...

25 january 2020
interfax.by
The position of Russian oil companies, which refuse to supply oil to Belarus without a premium to the supply price, devalues the achievements in the construction of the Union State and the plans for deeper integration, said Anton Dudarenok, an analyst at the Belarusian State Institute for Strategic Research (BISR). ...