Russians offer pay for gas from Belarusian dictator’s fund
- 21.06.2010, 15:04
Politologists claim such a strange thing as the President’s Fund can be found in Belarus.
“As the Belarusians refuse to pay for Russian gas and cannot show any documents that would explain their demands, we have an excellent example of duality: going on supporting the country for an unknown reason, or saying ‘stop, guys. That’s enough’. ‘No’ was said a long time ago, but they thought it might be a joke. It has been confirmed today that it was serious,” Alexey Kuzmin, deputy director of Humanities and Political Studies Institute, head of the council of experts at the National Prospects Foundation, said commenting Polit.ru on Alexey Miller’s statement on failure of Gazprom-Belarus talks.
“Belarus found itself in this unpleasant situation long ago. It has been behaving as an ordinary hooligan trying to blackmail us with the Customs Union. As a result, the Customs Union was formed for two states, Russia and Kazakhstan, without Belarus, thought Belarus needed the Customs Union more than Russia. They do not have any instruments remained,” Alexey Kuzmin stressed.
“Belarus tries to blackmail Russia with Vileika and air defense. Russia received repeated explanations: guys, we are protecting your border with the European Union. But there are not many people wanting to cross the border. I do not observe mass border crossing from Europe to Russia,” the expert thinks.
“What do they have to force us? Nothing. Belarus doesn’t carry out crucial exports to the Russian Federation. I really don’t understand how Belarus can bite us. I clearly understand that it will defeat, maybe it will wave the flag, but will finally come to arrange how the debt can be rescheduled. Moreover, I think Belarus has some money.
The country has such a strange thing as the President’s Fund. It’s a great mystery how it is formed, but I know some spiteful people who claim it is refilled from drug smuggling. I don’t exclude this version, as the Tajik drug traffic and especially Kyrgyz drug traffic can be one of the grounds why Bakiyev stays in Minsk now. I wouldn’t insist on this point of view, but I know it exists. There are gourds to suppose that the traffic faced problems after the events in Kyrgyzstan, but a certain amount of money, not a small sum, was saved,” Alexey Kuzmin noted.