SCW NEWSWATCH: "Putin bets on Lukashenko keeping power in Belarus for now: sources" - Reuters 8.21.20
"... Putin believes ... Lukashenko will probably cling to power for now despite protests ... and is content to let him sweat it out, two [Kremlin-connected] sources ... said. ... [Russia and Belarus] usually have no border controls, ... culturally, linguistically and economically intertwined. Putin has pushed hard to make [their] [']union state['] more of a political and economic reality. ... Russia has repeatedly asked Lukashenko to let it open an air base .... Russian energy exports flow via Belarus to the West, Moscow supplies cheap oil and gas to Belarus ... Russian troops have taken part in huge [past] war games on Belarusian soil .... The Russian air force has a radar station in Belarus ... to track ballistic missile launches. ... [A] [Russian] naval communications facility [there] ... communicate[s] with ... nuclear submarines. ... Moscow ... regard[s] Belarus as a buffer zone against NATO, according to Western diplomats, who say they believe any move for Belarus to join the [EU] or NATO would be a red line for Russia and could prompt it to send in troops. ..."
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