Alexander Lukashenko paying official visit to Russia

Belarus" President, who arrived in theRussian Federationyesterday, is scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today to hold narrow and expanded format talks in the Kremlin. One of the main negotiation topics between the two leaders will be economy. The volume of trade turnover betweenBelarusandRussiahas gone down to 20.5 billion dollars over the past nine months, which is 27% less than last year. Nevertheless, the countries have a good level of cooperation in the investment sphere, the volume ofRussia"s investments inBelarusexceeding 60 billion dollars.
The visit is expected to result in the signing of a number of international documents. Also today, Alexander Lukashenko will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier inAlexanderGardens.