MINSK - Belarus has cut its 2015 economic growth forecast to 0.2-0.7 percent from the previous 2 percent because of the economic slowdown in Russia, state news agency BelTA quoted Economy Minister Nikolai Snopkov as saying.
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Pro-Russian militants fire their Kalashnikov assault rifles near an tank taken from Ukrainian forces during fighting in August, as they test fire in an open field, in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaisk, some 40 km east of Donetsk, on Nov. 18 2014.