“If one country has benefitted from the Ukraine crisis, it’s Belarus,” writes Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, noting Minsk has recently brushed off its international pariah status and that the peers of President Alexander Lukashenko no longer treat him as the leader no one wants to be seen with. But if Belarus’s role in the negotiations to resolve the Russian-Ukraine conflict has given a new appearance to “this state run by the ‘last dictator in Europe’” and flung it to the forefront of the European political scene, this “is just the beginning”, writes the Russian daily.
For Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, Lukashenko’s “weathervane strategy between Russia …read more
Source: VoxEeurop
