date:Aug 28, 2014
y, Belarus has been flirting with the West by not adhering to all of Putin's sanctions and by congratulating the Ukrainian President on his election victory. The president/dictator Lukashenko, over twenty years in power in Belarus, is trying to get a better footing in Europe. Kazakhstan also decided not to follow Russia in the tightening of sanctions. Via Belarus, among other, a number of smuggling routes have been created for boycotted products to arrive to the Russian market.
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