here and now №1 14.04.2000 (2000)

Guest of the program: Anatoly Lebedko, Deputy Head of the United Civil Party of Belarus.

Main topics and questions discussed in the studio: 1. What is your attitude to the integration process between Russia and Belarus? 2. A budget is being formed, a joint military group is being created, aren’t these real steps? 3. In principle, you support integration, but not in the way it is happening now – declaratively. 4. About the ideal European model of relations between the two countries using the example of Germany and Austria. 5. Two directions of integration: political and economic. 6. About the impossibility of political integration in modern conditions. 7. About today’s authoritarian model of governing the country in Belarus. 8. You call for closer cooperation with Western countries, what do you expect from the West? 9. About the economic situation in the country, which is far from desirable. 10. About the lack of a development vector and prospects.