Minsk should pay for Russian expenditures in dollars or euros, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday.
“The task stands before the government [of Belarus] to trade not in rubles, but in dollars because we pay for energy resources in dollars and not in rubles. This is by the way a deficiency in the government of Russia. [We] should have worked and demanded from them so that they also paid us in hard currency, in dollars or in euros,” Lukashenko said during a meeting on economic issues.