The European Union has lifted most sanctions against Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and his administration officials, the EU Council said in a statement Monday, praising Belarus’s role at a time when Russia has been pushing to reestablish control over former Soviet republics, The Moscoe Times reports.
Relations between Belarus’s authoritarian president and the West have improved markedly since the start of Russia’s meddling in Ukraine a couple of years ago. Lukashenko criticized Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the Russian-backed separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s east, and hosted peace talks in his capital Minsk between representatives of the Kiev government, rebel leaders, Russia, …read more
Source: Public Radio of Armenia
