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The integration, at least economic, between Russia and Belarus seems ever closer. On the eve of the Zapad joint military exercises (West), Vladimir Putin e Aleksandr Lukashenko announced the signing of a package of “28 programs” to strengthen the Russia-Belarus Union, a political-economic alliance dating back to 1999 when the Kremlin leader was still Boris Eltsin, but remained unfulfilled for a long time.
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