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Today, Belarus should choose another strategy in negotiations with Russia -- it needs to actively make such proposals to Moscow, which "neither publicly, nor non-publicly will be impossible to reject".
"These may be such proposals as digitization of industry and protectionism for industry. Many enterprises in Russia will be happy if Belarus starts lobbying for industrial policy and the existence of industrial policy. If Belarus follows this path, it will instantly get a large number of allies in Russia. But Minsk needs to decide on this," political scientist Kirill Koktysh offers his options for Belarus.
But it is very difficult to decide on it, as there will be those in Russia and Belarus who will call such initiatives "economic heresy" and "denial of liberalism" and will resist them.
The expert of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Balázs Jarábik, also said on the air of Euroradio that Russia thinks about the reduction of spending on Belarus, rather than about its annexation by deepening integration.
Kirill Koktysh also says that the Kremlin has no plans to annex our country:
"The liberal community in Moscow has talked a lot about it [the Kremlin's plans to annex Belarus - Euroradio]. But this is the first sign that this will never be the mainstream idea. In all the years of Putin's rule it has been like this. It's all a deceptive trail," the political scientist is convinced.
There is no reason not to believe the experts. It is possible that behind all the latest events there is really only the desire of Moscow to spend less on Belarus. But does it remove the question about the threat to the independence of our country?
And at this time in Belarus signatures are being collected to petition for denunciation of the Union State Treaty. The initiator of such a petition was... the House of Representatives MP Hanna Kanapatskaya.