Koktysh: Russia to pay for Baumgertner with gas in 2014
MGIMO professor and pundit Kirill Koktysh talks to Euroradio about the outcome of Belarus-Russia 'potash war'.
Summing up the results of the potassium war between Belarus and Russia, the expert noted that the conflict escalated according to the Belarusian terms. That is why Alyaksandr Lukashenka can be considered the winner. It does not matter that Uralkali has not compensated for $100 million of the so-called losses Baumgertner caused for Belarus.
Kirill Koktysh: "They will pay in other ways. It will affect gas agreements and other contracts… I am sure that everything will be taken into account and compensated. I think that they have already agreed on it. It seems to me that Belarus has already solved most of its economic problems for 2014.”
At the same time, you cannot say that Russia was defeated in the potassium war, the expert thinks. Dmitry Medvedev’s liberal group lost but members of the top brass became stronger. There were rumours circulating in Moscow: people though that Russian members of the top brass made the list of people who had to visit Minsk together with Baumgertner.
