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President of Russia Vladimir Putin has expressed solidarity with Belarus, which opposes illegitimate Western sanctions. The website of the President of the Russian Federation informed about it.
Putin expressed solidarity during a telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The conversation was held on the eve of the plenary session of the Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus, which Putin and Lukashenko will attend via video link.
“ Attention was also paid to the issue of continuing “ further“ pressure on sanctions against the republic. The Russian side expressed solidarity with Belarus by opposing unilateral illegitimate restrictions imposed by Western states on & nbsp; violations of standards between & timid; popular law & nbsp; reported on the site.
In Belarus, sectoral sanctions: restrictions on trade in potash fertilizers, petroleum products, tobacco products (applies to contracts concluded after 25 June 2021), as well as a ban on government and state-owned banks accessing the EU financial market. The sanctions were in response to the May incident with the landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk and the arrest of the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Roman Protasevich, who flew this plane.