BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/12/2007

Belarus Is Sold To Russia For $3.5 Billion

Michael Batiukov

--$1.5 billion? $2.0 billion? $3.5 billion? Going once. Going twice. Sold to a gentleman in the front raw - "Time" magazine Person of the Year 2007 - Future Czar of Russia & Belarus, Mr. Putin.

On December 20th, 2007 in Moscow, Belarus and Russia has signed an agreement on granting Belarus a state credit of 1.5 billion dollars. The document has been signed by Belarusian Finance Minister Nikolai Korbut and Russian vice Prime Minister, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Also Russia is considering a possibility to lend 2 billion dollars more in the year 2008.

In spite of the Deputy Economy Minister of Belarus Oleg Melnikov's statements (he is in charge of privatization issues) at a press-conference in Minsk that "Russia's decision to grant Belarus a $1.5 billion stabilization loan is not subject to Russians' claims to Belarusian public property and any large-scale, massive sales of property to Russian investors are not expected.",-- there is a strong (100%?) probability that the most profitable Belarusian enterprises will be sold to Russian owners in the near future. As always everything will be done under the table and totally uninformed Belarusian public would not even notice that the owners have been changed and the whole country of more than 10 million people is sold to new Russian oligarchs. Why is that?

Simple. The president of Russia was never elected by the people of Russia, he was appointed by Boris Eltsin (former president). The president of Belarus was elected democratically by the people of Belarus 13 years ago, but he re-elected himself twice in 1999 and 2006 by killing the other opposition candidates (former Interior Minister general Yury Zakharenko and the other candidate for Belarusian presidency Viktor Gonchar, 1999) or putting a new presidential candidate to jail (Aleksandr Kozulin, 2006) and falsifying the results. According to western democratic standards basically both of the presidents are illegitimate and they do not care about their people. Both of them care only about two things: power & money for their clans.

Nobody knows about what both presidents were talking for seven hours behind closed doors till 5:30 am on December 14, 2007 in Minsk during the official visit of the president of Russia to Belarus (Dec. 13-14, 2007). Probably, they were both discussing how to keep power forever? Probably, they were both exchanging ideas how to keep opposition in jail during the presidential elections in Russia 2008? Probably, they were both talking over how to sell Air Defense Systems

C-400 all over the world? Or, probably, they were tossing around the idea to make Belarus a nuclear state again?

Anyway, probably, sleeping Belarusians one day will wake up in Russia. Because the country is sold in secret for $3.5 billion already and nobody even knows about it.

Good night, Belarus. Happy dreams to you.

Source:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=46798

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