From Reuters: Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday berated ally Russia for not paying for its military bases deployed in his country and warned that he could snub the summit of a Moscow-dominated security pact next month. …

"I want to congratulate my Ukrainian colleagues on this victory — they have saved a few billion dollars by signing this deal," Lukashenko told reporters. …

"If someone has forgotten it, Russia has two military bases on Belarussian land," Lukashenko said. "And Russia pays us zero roubles, zero kopecks and zero dollars for these bases."

"Besides Belarus, Russia has no one on its western flank."

He said one of the bases was part of Russia’s national ballistic missile early warning system, while the other provided communications with Russian submarines in the Atlantic. …

Lukashenko threatened he would not attend an informal summit of the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organisation (ODKB) set for May 8 in Moscow, unless the issue of Kyrgyzstan’s "coup d’etat" was included in the agenda of the meeting.  (photo: Reuters)

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