Shushkevich named the real reasons for the meeting with Yeltsin in Belovezhskaya Pushcha
Shushkevich: the real reason for the meeting with Yeltsin in Belovezhskaya Pushcha was the negotiations on gas oil and gas supplies to Belarus. Stanislav Shushkevich spoke about this in an interview with Lente.ru as part of a special project dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Shushkevich explained that he had invited the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin there because he believed that he would not refuse visit the recreation center “Viskuli”, which was previously under the jurisdiction of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. “I never thought for a minute that we would begin to resolve much more serious political issues,” the politician admitted. He called himself and the head of the Council of Ministers of Belarus Vyacheslav Kebich the initiators of the meeting. “Otherwise, we would have frozen our citizens. We were constantly looking for an individual meeting with