The Council of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development has agreed to provide Belarus with a tranche of $500 million when the European Union takes punitive measures against the republic.
According to the Russian Ministry of Finance, the loan will be issued for up to 10 years. The grace period is 5 years. The interest rate on the loan will not be fixed. It is planned to define it as the average yield of Russian Eurobonds in dollars for a period of seven years.
Let us remind you that presidential elections were held in Belarus on August 9. Then Aleksandr Lukashenko won the victory, but Western countries, for which the Belarusian leader had long been an obstacle, did not put up with the voting results. As a result, pre-planned riots broke out in Belarus.
The headquarters of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the pro-Western opposition, is preparing for lengthy protests aimed at overthrowing the government. The former housewife, who also ran for president of the country, refuses to admit defeat. Claiming without any evidence that the vote was rigged, Tikhanovskaya calls herself a “leader” of the Belarusian people, while hiding in Lithuania.
The position of the European Union regarding what is happening is ambiguous. Poland and Lithuania are actively working on the revolutionary scenario. They promoted more radical measures of pressure on the official Minsk in the EU, and Europe has already introduced anti-Belarusian sanctions, trying to destabilize the situation in the republic.