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Russian, Belarussian leaders to meet next week: Kremlin

Published March 30, 2017 Updated March 30, 2017 02:25pm

Russia and Belarus are traditional allies, but relations have become strained since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014, a move that Lukashenko has described as a "bad precedent".

Moscow and Minsk are in a dispute over the price that Belarus pays for imports of Russian gas, and over a reduction in the volumes of crude oil that Russia ships to Belarus.

Peskov, on a regular conference call with reporters, said the disagreements between Minsk and Moscow over trade would be on the agenda for the April 3 meeting.

 

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