Two stories involving Belarus that have been unfolding over the past few weeks appear to contradict each other on the surface. These are the growing economic dependency of Belarus on Russia on the one hand, and the ongoing trade wars between both countries on the other hand. But taken together, they illuminate something much deeper about its present political-economic situation.
OP-ED
Grigory Ioffe: Belarusian-Russian economic dependency
Family members hug each others as some of them leave Belarus before closing the Russian border at the Russian-Belarus border near the village of Krasnaya Gorka, some 470 km west of Moscow, on March 29, 2020.
