MINSK. June 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Belarus and Russia do not have any differences in providing for the defense and security of the Belarus-Russia Union, deputy head of the Belarussian presidential administration Oleg Proleskovsky said in an interview published by the first issue of the Planeta Journal.
"Coordinated statements by the Russian Federal Security Service and the Belarussian State Security Committee [on the Western financing of the Belarussian opposition] showed the West that the two countries have closer relations than has been presumed in Western strategies," he said.
"The West is in a hurry. They realize the 'revolution' organized in Ukraine caused the opposite reaction in the CIS and prompted Russia's rapprochement with Belarus," he said. "It [the revolution] illustratively showed the Kremlin how valuable the union is, and how its loss may strike a deadly blow to Russia's security."
The majority of Western expansion concepts are based on "anti-governmental notions, because any strong nation is a barrier in the way of western 'democracy,'" he said.