
KALININGRAD, Oct 4The Russian-Belarusian Forum on Security and Cooperation «Frontiers of the Union State» opened on Tuesday in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The event will last two days, from 4 to 5 October. Leading experts, scientists, deputies, senators, representatives of business and civil society of Russia and Belarus will discuss in Svetlogorsk issues of strengthening borders and economic sovereignty, as well as the future of the Union State in the context of military-political and sanctions pressure from the West.
October 3, 13:56Union StateMishustin urged to develop integration in the Union StateThe event was opened with a welcoming speech by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted that Russia and Belarus independently determine their own priorities and vector of their development. EAT. Primakova, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Dynkin, as well as a number of experts from the Russian Federation and Belarus. As the Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov noted, for two days the forum experts will discuss security issues of the Union State, strengthening its sovereignty, as well as economic cooperation. «Russia and Belarus not just good neighbors, but closest allies, strategic partners who will be united by a common history, spiritual values, and a common future,» the governor said during a speech at the opening of the forum. The organizers of the forum are the National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute», the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, IMEMO them. E.M.Primakova Russian Academy of Sciences, Baltic Federal University. I.Kanta, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus, Association of Foreign Policy Researches. A. A. Gromyko and others.

