The agenda of the meeting includes economy, joint response to aggressive attacks of the Western "partners," security in the region, and integration issues. The Presidents agreed to this meeting on July 1 during a telephone conversation.
As Alexander Lukashenko pointed out, facts of individual terror appear practically every day. In particular, the terrorist act at the site of the Russian Navy in Vileika was prevented, as well as the attempts to kill and intimidate journalists and deputies. This cannot go unanswered. Plus, the aggressive policy of the Baltic States and Poland, they are already blaming Minsk and Moscow for the migration crisis on their own borders, covering up their inability to protect their own citizens. There is also turmoil on the borders of the CSTO, the joint defense organization.
Four years ago the meeting of the Belarusian and Russian leaders had to change the agenda from purely economic to the complex protection of citizens. There was an explosion in St. Petersburg metro and Strelna Palace became the allied anti-terrorist headquarters for 5 hours. In four years the methods of mass intimidation have changed. After the failed color revolution at the "Belarusian front", the West chooses the tactics of economic strangulation and individual terror. Provocations and outright terrorism are a completely different level. It is beyond the limits of European law and practice. We are talking about the night attack on the house of Oleg Gaidukevich by the unknown terrorists. He is a confidant of the President in the elections, a leader of a party, a deputy of the parliamentary commission for international affairs. And in the west there is hypocritical silence, as if they were covering their own pawns. Three petrol bombs were thrown at 3 a.m. into the house, where the children were sleeping. Fortunately, two of the fuses didn't go off, no one was hurt, but the criminals left a trail and will be found. And this is not the first case. The gangs of Olinevich, Avtukhovich and Sidorakin were detained with arsenals of weapons and explosives after a series of explosions and arsons. Both in Moscow and Minsk they arrested conspirators who were planning a coup d'etat and murder of the President and his children. And also remember the assasination attempt on journalist Grigory Azarenok and the confession of Ukrainian neo-Nazis that it was they who were preparing the militants. Plus an attempted terrorist attack in Vileika. This is a site of the Russian Navy.
The Belarusian economy is an example of model stability, in spite of any external shocks. The drop in trade from the last pandemic waves and closed borders has been fully recovered. Strategic cargo traffic has been moved to safe Russian ports. Industrial cooperation is at its historical maximum since the post-Soviet era.












