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"It is shocking that the West calls the incident in Belarusian airspace 'shocking'," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook on Monday. Russia has been steadily increasing its power and influence over its neighbor Belarus, but the countries' leaders President Vladimir Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko are somewhat uncomfortable allies — it's arguable that any allegiance is fragile at best, and borne out of necessity. For Belarus, Russia is a powerful economic and political partner and a source of support, having backed Lukashenko's leadership which is now in it...

Russia has been steadily increasing its power and influence over its neighbor Belarus.

markets 35 mins ago "It is shocking that the West calls the incident in Belarusian airspace 'shocking'," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook on Monday. Russia has been steadily increasing its power and influence over its neighbor Belarus, but the countries' leaders President Vladimir Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko are somewhat uncomfortable allies — it's arguable that any allegiance is fragile at best, and borne out of necessity. For Belarus, Russia is a powerful economic and political partner and a source of support, having backed Lukashe...

Russia has been steadily increasing its power and influence over its neighbor Belarus, but the countries' leaders President Vladimir Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko are somewhat uncomfortable allies — it's arguable that any allegiance is fragile at best, and borne out of necessity. For Belarus, Russia is a powerful economic and political partner and a source of support, having backed Lukashenko's leadership which is now in its 27th year. For Russia, Belarus offers an opportunity to exert economic and political influence in the region, and is a convenient bulwark against what it see...