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Belarus: Moscow Tightens its Grip
Feb 26, 2009 | 18:45 GMT
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Summary
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has stated that the European Union's plan for expanding the Eastern Partnership initiative should entail "equitable conditions for all its participants." While the European Union would like to include Belarus in this initiative in order to strengthen ties to its eastern neighbor and pull Minsk away from Russia's influence, Moscow has been making substantive deals with Belarus to make sure that does not happen anytime soon.
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