A 17-page law produced in the summer of 2021 confirms Moscow’s expansion strategy to create a “Greater Russia”. And echoing a joke Lukashenko said last Friday to Putin, who thanked him for visiting Moscow: “As if I could have disapproved”
A pool of international mediaincluding the German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wdr and Ndr, revealing the existence of a document from summer 2021 of the Russian Presidential Administration entitled “Strategic Goals of the Russian Federation in Belarus”, the in 17 pages sketch how Fly would intend to continue annex Belarus by 2030. According to the reconstruction, the plan should emerge from the “Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation” created five years ago Kremlin Develop strategies aimed at increasing Russian influence in neighboring states.
The Ard reports that the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenkowhen he traveled to Moscow last Friday after Putin thanked him for the visit in front of the cameras, he allegedly gave the measure of the existing balance of power by salaciously replying: “As if I could have refused“. In addition, the despot of Minsk owes his stay in power to help from Moscow after hundreds of thousands took to the streets in 2020 calls for his resignation.
The project one unitary state it had existed since 1999, they report Florian Flade, Leah Frey And Manuel Warder by WDR and NDR, but it was not yet known how far Moscow wants to go. The creeping annexation is outlined in the Kremlin document using political, economic and military means. The strategic document would explicitly state the objective of “ensuring the prevailing influence of the Russian Federation in the fields of society, politics, trade, economy, science, education, culture and information”. Western influence is to be banned, a bulwark against NATO created and the constitutional reform passed in February 2022 implemented under the conditions desired by Moscow. Belarus would lose all independence.
The plan, also illustrated by ZdF with material from France Press, is divided in two pieces, a list of strategic goals for the short term (by 2022), medium term (by 2025) and long term (2030). The goals would then in turn be outlined into four distinct areas: politics, military-defensive, Social And economic-commercial. Pro-Russian elites would be established in business, academia and civil society. Simplifying the procedure for issuing Russian passports, as has already happened in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The military presence extended with a common command system of the armed forces. The nuclear power plants connected to the network of the new unitary state and the merchant fleet Belarusian could dock only in Russian ports. They would be created in Belarus schools And Russian universities and Belarusian children sent on educational courses in patriotic centers of Moscow.
Flade, Frey and Bewarder point out that the plan, which would also describe the risks associated with each set target, is different for operators Western intelligence agencies it would be authentic and not outdated to create the building block of a larger strategy Great Russia. Even if Lukashenko himself may not want to hand over the country’s full independence to Vladimir Putin, Moscow’s plans now seem to have worked already very advanced and local reality. From October 2022 thousands of soldiers are stationed from Moscow Belarus and they play you exercises together. Historical economic dependence on Moscow is almost complete and it is estimated that around two-thirds of exports from Minsk, which has lost many trading partners to sanctions since Russia invaded Ukraine, already go exclusively to Russia. Also the influence of Kremlin propaganda it is already ubiquitous in the media and the use of the Belarusian language in a limited public, entirely in line with Moscow’s goals.