Kommersant Hints At Lukashenka Being Beggar

• 12.10.2024, 8:25

Belarus has become an “unloading shop”.

Kommersant journalist Andrei Kolesnikov shared his impressions of the ceremony of awarding the Russian Order of St. Andrew the First-Called to the ruler of Belarus in the Kremlin on October 9. The observer had a dig at Lukashenka in a traditional manner:

“Even since Soviet times, Belarus has been called the assembly shop of the Soviet Union,” Mr. Putin said unexpectedly. “And thanks to your efforts, Belarus has retained these certain advantages in the field of economics and industrial production.”

“Now, however, I somehow cannot bring myself to call Belarus an assembly shop. Rather, it is an unloading shop — for Russian money, which the country transfers to support and develop the Belarusian economy, so that Belarus can support and develop Russian-Belarusian relations,” Kolesnikov hinted at Lukashenka being a beggar.

“Yesterday and the day before yesterday we had the opportunity to discuss global issues, hot spots on our planet,” Aliaksandr Lukashenka admitted to Vladimir Putin.

He is always happy to talk to a colleague about the international agenda, about global issues. Of course, he always wants to, but there is no one to talk to. After all, no one else wants to talk. And whoever does not want to, is against us.

So one involuntarily begins to appreciate the little that remains to them. And thus they are drawn to each other, and become more and more allied,” the journalist summed up.