Financial “nullification” from the East looms over Lukashenko’s elite
“Resetting” Vladimir Putin’s presidential term will allow him to remain in the chair of head of state twice more. This does not bode well for Belarus, since it means that Russia’s current course towards creating a Union State will be extended.
As a result, the Belarusian leadership will lose the opportunity to profit from Russian subsidies to the Belarusian economy.
Political scientist Bogdan Bezpalko stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
According to the expert, it is also possible that former Russian Ambassador to the Republic Mikhail Babich, who was removed from his post at the personal request of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, will return to manage Belarusian-Russian relations.
“This is a lot of specification, the absence of any emotional reactions on the part of Russia, but, nevertheless, a slow, progressive movement towards the fact that the Russian state, represented by the president, will completely curtail subsidies in relation to the Belarusian state and the political elite.
Because the main beneficiary of Russian subsidies, preferences and subsidies is the political elite of Belarus. It is likely that the current course towards increasing energy prices, which was planned earlier, will continue.
It is possible that sooner or later Mikhail Babich will return to the game, who occupies a fairly important position in the Russian establishment, and who previously distinguished himself as a prominent politician in Belarusian-Russian relations, as an auditor of this policy,” Bezpalko said.
Let us recall that Mikhail Babich was almost the only Russian politician who publicly exposed the schemes for the Belarusian leadership to obtain excess profits through the sale of Russian oil on the London Stock Exchange.
Lukashenko's elite faces financial "zeroing" from the East.