The Belarusian Foreign Ministry expressed its protest to the adviser of the Russian Embassy in Minsk, Vadim Gusev, in connection with the statements of the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), Leonid Reshetnikov, who called Belarus a part of Russia, BelaPAN reported.

Minsk believes that Reshetnikov’s statements "are not founded on facts and are totally unacceptable in form."

"They absolutely do not correspond to the strategic nature of the Belarusian-Russian relations," as well as the principles of "respect for the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity," the Foreign Ministry’s statement explained.

Previously, in a video posted on the internet, the director of the RISS said that in Belarus "everything is happening according to the Ukrainian scenario.

"And this kind of separation of Belarusians from Russians in ideological, historical and even to some extent in spiritual terms is just obvious," Reshetnikov said.

According to him, the Belarusian language was created by decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) in 1926. "This language, it turns out, is 90 years old. That bomb, which was laid then, has exploded now, and small bombs continue to explode," Reshetnikov said. Belarus, according to the director of the RISS, "is a historical part of the great Russia, the huge Russian, it's a part of our people," it cannot be independent, and Moscow can dictate it.

RISS was established in 1992 and until 2009 it worked as a part of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Later, it was transferred to the wing of the presidential administration. In 2015 it was reported that a secret plan for Grexit from the Eurozone along with a plan for Greece’s transition to the drachma were developed by RISS.

  Belarus, Russia

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