The Kremlin does not announce exceptions for Belarus for the repayment of loans worth 1.5 billion dollars



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Russia has said it will make no exceptions for Minsk on how to repay a $ 1.5 billion loan agreed to Monday by Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Lukashenko, Agerpres writes.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the loan should be repaid like any other. He also said that relations between Belarus and Russia remain “close” and “brotherly” and that Moscow wants them to continue.

According to Peskov, the two leaders also discussed power supply between their countries, but declined to provide details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he was “convinced” that his Minsk counterpart Alexander Lukashenko could solve the political crisis in Belarus, the scene of a protest movement unprecedented since his re-election earlier this month. expressed his support for constitutional reform as a way to resolve the crisis in the former Soviet republic, rejecting any foreign interference in Belarusian affairs.

The two leaders met Monday in Sochi, on Russia’s Black Sea coast.

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