Russia grateful to Lukashenko for developing ties between two countries — Putin
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According to the Russian leader, relations between Moscow and Minsk “are based on the inviolable principles of friendship and good-neighborliness, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests, and, of course, common history, common moral and spiritual values, strong family and kinship ties between many Russians and Belarusians”