belarus-russian relations 1) after the western sanctions, russia began to buy a huge amount of belarusian goods. trade turnover between belarus and russia this year will amount to $60 billion which is more than russia's trade turnover with all other former soviet republics combined. 2) thanks to the huge demand for belarusian goods in russia the average salary in belarus has increased by 25% just in 2 years and gdp grows 4% every year. 3) belarusian companies were included in the russian program of import substitution and built into russian production chains thanks to this belarusian industrial production grows by double digits from year to year. 4) russia allocated several $ billions for modernization of belarusian industry and shared technologies of aircraft and rocket building. thanks to this belarus started construction of an aircraft factory and our own rocket program. 5) russia agreed to build a second nuclear power plant in belarus on very favorable conditions 6) they trained and sent the first belarusian cosmonaut into space (for free) 7) russia agreed to finance the construction of a high-speed railroad (300 km/h) from minsk to moscow  8) due to the fact that belarus remained russia's only ally belarusians became adored in russia, and lukashenko's rating in russia rose to the sky, especially after the wagner revolt.
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