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Russia for Minsk is more than a country, the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko believes. He said this during a meeting with the governor of the Novgorod region Andrey Nikitin, RIA Novosti reported.
“We perfectly understand that in the 21st century it is not enough for a modern person to know only one language,” Sergey Shurygin said in his speech, "and we choose a foreign language that becomes dear to us in another world."
“I often say: if someone in Russia thinks that this is their Russia, this is our Russia too,” the President of Belarus said, “You have to get used to it.” He added that Russia was an ideology that “cannot be knocked out of me”.
Lukashenko noted that the regions of Russia and Belarus actively cooperated even in the years when there were serious problems in bilateral relations - "they shut off gas and did not supply oil." Largely thanks to contacts at the regional level, the countries were able to overcome differences and maintain relations at a good level.
The head of Belarus is convinced that Russia does not have a closer ally than Belarus. Belarusians, in their turn, have no one closer than Russia. Alexander Lukashenko is confident that the authorities of the two countries are able to agree on any problematic issues. “We should never lose each other,” he summed up.
Earlier, Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk would not ally against Moscow. He recalled that when the country had great difficulties, no one supported Belarus, except for Russia and China, with which cooperation had just begun. The president also noted that nobody was going to turn Russian into an “apple of discord”.
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