Kremlin will require Lukashenka to pay

The last meeting of governmental delegations of Russia and Belarus was rare effective. Minsk received a loan of USD 1.5 billion yesterday. Earlier Russia’s president instructed to examine an application for another credit of USD 2 billion for the next year. Gas price for Belarus increases only by a little for the first quarter of the year. But, as the newspaper “Vedomosti” writes today, the relation between Putin and Lukashenka hasn’t become warmer. What is meant here is continuing of the new policy towards Belarus. The Kremlin has been demonstrating since end of 2006 that it is not going to give Lukashenka any gifts as it was before.