Lavrov threatens to protect Belarus with "full range of measures"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russia is ready to apply all mechanisms provided for under the union treaty to ensure the security of Belarus and the Union State. [The Union State, or Union State of Russia and Belarus, is a supranational union consisting of Belarus and Russia, with the stated aim of deepening the relationship between the two states through integration in economic and defence policy - ed.]

By Anastasia Protz