“In Sochi, Putin and Lukashenko discussed a successor” - Evseev
What is important for Moscow is not maintaining the current president of Belarus in his post, but ensuring the transit of power after the constitutional reform.
This opinion was expressed in a commentary to Izvestia by Vladimir Yevseyev, head of the Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development at the CIS Institute, as reported by PolitNavigator correspondent.
He believes that the frame of yesterday's negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Belarus in Sochi, most likely, remained one of the main topics - the question of the future successor of Alexander Lukashenko.
“What is important for Moscow is not the preservation of the current president of Belarus, the main thing is to ensure the peaceful transit of power after the constitutional reform in the republic. The figure of the successor is deliberately kept secret so as not to turn the West against him ahead of time,” the expert believes.
At the same time, he emphasized that the Russian Federation has many questions for Lukashenko personally, mainly related to the oil and gas sector.
“I think that after negotiations between the two leaders, disputes on this topic between Moscow and Minsk should subside,” Yevseev said.
As PolitNavigator reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to fulfill his obligations to Minsk, regardless of who is in power in Belarus.
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