Since the Soviet Union collapsed, Belarus has received little foreign investment, and has not privatised much: the state's share of the economy, already around 80%, is, if anything, growing.
The Kremlin has been extending loans to former Soviet republics like Armenia and Belarus for Russian-made reactors.
The U.S. Library of Congress reports that Belarus, a former Soviet Republic, has now essentially outlawed its citizens from browsing foreign websites.
In recent years, an increasingly confident Moscow has used Gazprom to assert its authority over Russia's former sphere of influence by offering heavily subsidized gas to ex-Soviet countries such as Ukraine and Belarus.
In 1991, Byelorussia (Belarus) declared independence from the Soviet Union.
In 1990, Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
While President Clinton apparently blithely provided such guarantees to Belarus when it recently gave up former Soviet nuclear arms on its territory, he must be wary of assuming new, and arguably more callable, guarantees to states like Ukraine without taking the minimum steps necessary to preserve the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Belarus, and Kazakhstan as treaty successors to the Soviet Union.
The collapse of the Soviet Union left 3, 400 nuclear warheads in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
As the foreign-ministry document asserts, Russia needs to consolidate the former Soviet space by, for example, pushing the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Belarus has been struggling to pay for electricity from Russia thanks to a severe economic crisis in the former Soviet republic.
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