Lukashenko: Belarus will receive $1.5 billion from Russia to participate in import substitution programs

“The Russians allocate about one and a half billion dollars for these programs only on the territory of Belarus.

We understand that without import substitution, especially in critical sectors, the so-called critical imports, it will be very difficult for us to develop,” BelTA quoted Lukashenka as saying.

According to him, this decision was made with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

He noted that Belarus, for its part, offered Russia specific projects.

Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko earlier called on the EAEU countries to step up work on the transition to settlements in trade in national currencies.