Politics

The Belarus president's rating is down to 40 percent, while opposition leaders enjoy not more that 3.5 percent of popular support, says IISEPS.

Minsk is waiting for signals from Brussels and Washington but is not going to forget about ‘brotherly Russia’ either.

One of them will be in Florida and the other one – in Texas.

The Belarus president on Saturday replaced his prime minister, the head of the national bank, and an array of other top officials.

The representatives of Ukraine, Russia, OSCE and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics met behind closed doors in Minsk.

Belarusians have not come to the Russian capital ‘to beg’, he claimed.

It is not clear whether the President paid attention to it.

The reason for it is the Belarusian President’s recent visit to Kiev.

Russian president's aide Yuri Ushakov says Belarus can get the first chairmanship at Eurasian Economic Union, effective from January 1, 2015.