The Union State of Belarus and Russia. Myths and Realities of Political-Military Integration

Twenty years after the formal launch of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the (re-)integration between the two countries has seemed to accelerate throughout 2019. Although this development appeared to announce a paradigm change, and gave way to much speculation on the threat it poses to Belarus as a sovereign state, most of these alarmist forecasts depart from assumptions which are grounded in myths rather than in realities