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Anticipating the dialogue with the press, Vladimir Ilyich stopped on the significance of this holiday that is traditionally celebrated in Russia. The head of the Belarusian diplomatic mission underlined that the citizens of the Union state feel and in Belarus, and in Russia as at home: “We remain committed to the allied relations with Russia and never stray from this principle, since our countries and peoples are historically, spiritually, economically and any other way we have. Despite all the difficulties of the present period of life, we continue our bilateral contacts, including at the highest level”. The conviction of Ambassador, any acute situation, it can be resolved through reasonable compromises.

Given that just before the presidents of our countries together to discover Rzhevskiy memorial to Soviet soldiers and then held constructive talks, the thesis of this sounded very convincing.

During the hour and a half press conference, which was attended by journalists and the Union of leading Russian media, they were touched almost all issues of Russian-Belarusian relations, including the price of gas, the introduction of a unified “Union” visas, the harmonization of the legislations of the two countries in the context of further integration, the completion of the construction of a nuclear power plant under the Ostrowiec and even the outcome of the struggle of our two countries with the coronavirus.

By the way, the four employees of the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Moscow was recorded suspected infection were treated inpatient, but in General the disease has bypassed the diplomats party. However, security measures at the Embassy still accepted as serious, that is why traditionally hospitable Belarusian Embassy this year was forced to cancel a reception on the occasion of independence Day. However, the holiday will take place – answering the question of “Union” in a particular format, the Ambassador said: “of Course, the pandemic has made major adjustments – some years on this day we were invited to the Embassy more than five hundred of our friends. This year everything would be different, but today technology allows us to communicate in different formats. We have prepared the intellectual ground, interesting historical materials and on the Embassy website, and on our accounts in social networks can be seen, for example, musical numbers performed by the Belarusian national teams.”

elaborated by the Ambassador on the prospects of interregional relations within the Union state today, the cooperation agreements concluded by Belarus with 80 regions of Russia. Last year Vladimir Semashko paid a working visit to 28 Russian regions.

“the Relationship with the regions has always been a prerogative in the work of our Government, – said the Ambassador. – No matter what anyone said, Russia alwaysand was and is our main trading partner. And we for Russia in the trade turnover are among the top five after China, Germany, USA and the Netherlands. Building relationships with the regions, we try to take into account the specificity of each subject of the Russian… In the first trimester of this year, we were generally on the rise, but in April, many Russian enterprises the pandemic is stopped and stopped buying Belarus materials and components, in the end, there was a drop in turnover. However, over the past five months we have significantly reduced the negative balance that arose in 2017”.

Answering the question of compensation for the losses of the Belarusian budget from the tax maneuver, conducted in the Russian oil industry, Vladimir Semashko said: “We do not remove from the agenda compensation costs from the tax maneuver because it hurts our economy.” The Ambassador said that currently almost agreed on a Protocol between the Ministries of Finance of Belarus and Russia intergovernmental payment of the premium sum which is paid to Belarus of the Russian oil companies. Previously, the Belarusian side managed to agree with Russian companies to reduce the amount of this award with the former is 11.7$ 4.7$ per ton of oil.

with regard to another important topic – agreement on the mutual signing of visas between Belarus and Russia, it is, according to Vladimir Semashko, will come into force at the end of this – early next year.

the Increased interest shown by the journalists to the question about the difference in approaches in the fight against COVID-19 in Belarus and Russia. According to Vladimir Semashko, the differences are explained by the financial possibilities of the Russian and Belarusian economies. Meanwhile, according to the Ambassador, Belarus-selected tactic is completely justified, and the situation in the country looks no worse than in Russia. To confirm this thesis, Vladimir Semashko mentioned a few numbers. So, the number of cases in Russia coronavirus in percentage terms is today 0.5 percent of the population, and in Belarus – 0.6%. As for deaths, in Russia it’s official 1.3 percent of the patients, and in Belarus – 0.6%, i.e. 392 persons.

“and our, And your actions were correct, – concluded Vladimir Semashko. – Figures are significantly different to the best from the leading countries of the world. Here, take the U.S., where 5.3 percent of the patients died, Spain – 10.3 percent in Italy and 14.6 percent… Therefore you can certainly all criticize, but we recognized its capabilities. We have avoided overloading our health care system, we may be more point than the other, performed diagnostics. And now, judging by the number of discharged patients, we can say that the peak of the disease us PR��yden. I hope that the second wave in the autumn will not.”

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Jennifer Alvarez is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.