Vladimir Putin buddies up to Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko, and the West is aghast
Putin was hosting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for talks on Friday in Russia
28 May 2021 - 16:31
Ahead of a landmark summit with US President Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin is putting down a marker in Belarus over the limits of Western encroachment on Russia.
Putin was hosting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for talks on Friday in Russia’s Sochi, a public embrace of an ally who’s accused by the EU of state-sponsored piracy over the forced landing of a Ryanair jet and arrest of a dissident journalist...
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