The first tranche of the Russian state loan in the amount equivalent to $ 500 million reached Belarus. The receipt of money reported the Ministry of Finance of the republic on its website.
Governments of two fears signed a new agreement on a billion dollar loan on December 21 … Some of this money will be used to pay off previous loans.
Before that, in October, Belarus received another $ 500 million. They went to support the republican budget. The remaining 500 million will be sent to Minsk next year.
Negotiations on a new loan to Belarus for the head of the two countries Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko held against the backdrop of mass protests in the republic that began after the presidential elections on August 9th.
Yesterday it became known that the parties also agreed on oil supplies … According to the source, in the first quarter of the year Belarus received 4.5 million tons. The information about the completion of the negotiations was confirmed and the Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko . He did not give the parameters of the agreement, but called them beneficial for Minsk.