Anyone wanna speculate on the coming Russian-Belarusian "common economic space" will factor into all this?
DoreneC --- Union is on hold. Lukashenko wanted Belarus to be a full partner of Russia, with himself as vice-president. Putin said, "That is ridiculous. Your economy, which we subsidize anyway, is 3% of ours. We can either go the EU route or assimilate Belarus into Russia as another Russian region." Lukashenko left in a huff.