Lukashenko warns Belarus not for sale
May 27 2011
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, faced with a currency crisis, has angrily warned key creditor Russia to keep its hands off state assets.
"There will be no gangster sellout of our country! Not a single kopeck! We will not sell our potash industry, or our tractor and car factories, nor the BMZ steelworks. Nobody will buy anything unless I say so," announced Lukashenko on television.
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Belarus (i/bɛləˈruːs/ bel-ə-ROOSS; Belarusian: Белару́сь, Russian pronunciation: [bʲɛlaˈrusʲ] Russian: Беларусь, Белоруссия, Belarus', Belorussiya), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe,[8] bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Vitsebsk). Over forty percent of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested,[9] and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
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