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No gas debt deal for Minsk

Russia and Belarus failed to reach a quick deal over Minsk's $500 million gas debt to Moscow at top-level talks today, with Russian officials saying they needed more time to study whether to lend Belarus money.

Minsk celebrates: an army honour guard marches as Belarus marks its liberation from Nazi occupation by the Red Army in 1944, but the country owes Russia another debt - Minsk still has not reached an agreement over its outstanding $500 million gas bill
Minsk celebrates: an army honour guard marches as Belarus marks its liberation from Nazi occupation by the Red Army in 1944, but the country owes Russia another debt - Minsk still has not reached an agreement over its outstanding $500 million gas bill
  • Anthea Pitt
Published 30 July 2007, 10:11Updated 7 October 2016, 07:46
Eastern EuropePolitics