Putin and Lukashenko move to integrate economies of Russia and Belarus
Russian president Vladimir Putin (right) and Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko meet at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday.
Photograph: Mikhail Voskresenskiy/Sputnik/AFP/GettyVladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said they had made progress toward integrating the two countries’ economies during a summit on Thursday evening in advance of massive joint military exercises.