For all their differences, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are cut from the same cloth.
http://www.globalaffairs.ru/pubcol/Rossii-predstoit-vyigrat-mir--18679
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=58F39A2CF3550
https://lb.ua/world/2017/04/15/363998_konflikt_severnoy_koreey.html
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=58F1B8C1A6BD5
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3267685
Very little on the ground in Syria has changed since the U.S. missile strikes against the Assad regime. To translate this military action into policy gains, it will be necessary to follow up with increased diplomatic coordination with international partners and institutions.
http://www.rand.org/blog/2017/04/the-limits-of-going-it-alone-in-syria.html
Donald Trump is not known for particular care with words, so it was all too easy to turn his qualified view that US relations with Russia “may be at an all-time low” into a categorical assertion.