# Results of the visit of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Minsk to Alexander Lukashenko. The note

Vladimir Vladimirovich Zalesski

Results of the visit of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Minsk to Alexander Lukashenko. The note.


'MINSK, September 3 [2020]. / TASS /. The talks between the prime ministers of Russia and Belarus Mikhail Mishustin and Roman Golovchenko in Minsk ended. The meeting at the Palace of Independence was held with the participation of delegations and lasted about two hours.

Before that, the Russian Prime Minister met with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, it lasted about an hour and a half.' [unofficial translation] (https://tass.ru/politika/9365269)


Apparently, Lukashenko's regime is counting on certain economic bonuses promised during the visit.


Maneuvers around these bonuses continue for years and years. In any case, Belarus will not be able to step ahead of China and Turkey in the queue for bonuses. After the fall in energy prices and the reduction of the raw material pie to a critical level, the coercive role of benefactors seems to citizens of Russia more and more strange.


In our personal opinion, it would be much more important for the Belarusian people to see


(1) A respect for his will, expressed in the presidential elections in August 2020,


(2) A condemnation of the mass torture that took place during the post-election protests,


(3) A support for the democratic efforts of the vast majority of the Belarusian people.


None of the above, apparently, the Belarusian people was not succeeded to see or to hear ...


We will not comment on Alexander Lukashenko's statement on the 'theme about Navalny', because of it would mean a different literary genre ...


September 3, 2020 21:00


Translation from Russian into English: September 3, 2020 21:53.

Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Итоги визита премьер-министра Михаила Мишустина в Минск к Александру Лукашенко. Заметка'.