6 minutes agoDocument that shows Russia's intentions of annexing Belarus
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(3 years ago)An internal strategic document of the Kremlin, taken from an international consortium of journalists, presents a detailed plan of how Russia plans to take full control of neighbouring Belarus in the next decade on the pretext of joining the two countries, writes Yahoo News. The document describes in detail the planned annexation by political means, [...]
An internal strategic document of the Kremlin, taken from an international consortium of journalists, presents a detailed plan of how Russia plans to take full control of neighbouring Belarus in the next decade on the pretext of joining the two countries, writes Yahoo News.
The document describes in detail the planned annexation with political, economic and military means of an independent, non-liberal European nation from Russia, which is in a state of war.
Russia's “goals regarding Belarus are the same as Ukraine, only in Belarus it relies on obligation, not war. Its final goal is still the largest involvement of that country”, Michael Carpenter, the US ambassador to the European Security Organisation and co-operation, said.
According to the document released in the fall of 2021, the ultimate goal is to form the so - called Union of Russia and Belarus late in 2030.
All that was included in the two countries' union, including “harmonisation” of Belarusian laws with Russian Federation laws, co-ordination of foreign policy and defence, trade and economic co-operation based on Russian interests priorities. The Russian Federation's dominant influence on the socio-political, trade-economic, scientific-educational and cultural-informative sphere was stressed.
In practice, this would eliminate anything remaining from Belarus's sovereignty and lower the country by 9.3 million people in Moscow's satellite status. This would put Belarus into the mercy of the Kremlin's priorities, whether in agriculture, industry, spying or war.
This would pose a security threat to Belarus's European neighbours, three of them Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are members of NATO and the European Union.
The strategic document, which has never been made public before, was taken by an international consortium of journalists from Yahoo News, Delphi of Estonia, Dossier Center based in London, Swedish newspaper Kiv Expressen, Kyiv Independent, Südutsche Zeitung of Germany and German radio networks Westdeutscher, Rundfunk and Nordutscher Rundfunnk, Polish investigative newspaper Frontstone, the Belarus Research Centre and the Central European news page Vrequer.
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