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Via RT (https://www.rt.com/russia/498309-belarus-affairs-putin-merkel-talk/)….
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his German and French counterparts Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron that any attempt by outside forces to intervene in the political crisis in Belarus would be counterproductive.

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Via The Epoch Times ()…
Belarusian authorities said Wednesday they have detained dozens of Russian private military contractors days before Belarus’ presidential vote, a sign of escalating tensions between the two neighbors.

By Eva Barlett
The following is an interview conducted by email with a filmmaker based in Donetsk, who has been documenting Ukraine’s war on the Donetsk People’s Republic and the tragedies this has caused civilians living there.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met numerous times, both their countries have boosted cultural exchange and trade in recent years [PPIO]
The opening of a new freight train route between China and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a continuing sign of efforts by both regions to deepen their communication and transportation ties, officials have said.

As the situation within Ukraine itself deteriorates, Ukraine’s relations with the two neighbouring countries with which it has struggled to remain on good terms – Belarus and Poland – have also taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Every few years Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko has what seems to be an obligatory dispute with Russia, generally over energy prices. In both the 2004 and 2007 spats, the crisis was amicably solved in short order.
But during each disagreement, Lukashenko tended to purposely exaggerate the nature of the dispute in order to enhance his own personal prestige. It’s all a bit childish, as Russia and Belarus form a Union-State, making Russia and Belarus the two closest fraternal states of both the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasian Union.

Il y a un peu plus d’un an, se tenait le sommet de Minsk II, qui déboucha sur un accord de cessez-le-feu censé mettre fin à la guerre civile dans le Donbass, dans l’est de l’Ukraine. Nous avons saisi cette occasion pour revenir sur ce conflit avec Sergei Munier, un jeune Français qui a rejoint la milice de la République Populaire de Donetsk en 2014, et qui a accepté de s’entretenir avec nous.