Russia to lend around $640 mln to Belarus by end-2022

Russia will provide its neighbour Belarus with around $630-640 million in loans by the end of 2020, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday after meeting his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in the Kremlin.

Lukashenko, speaking at a media briefing after the talks, said the question of agreeing on a common currency with Russia was not on the agenda.

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