Russia to open an air base in Belarus by 2015

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Moscow will open an air base in Belarus by 2015.

“We have begun considering the plan to create a Russian air base with fighter jets here,” Shoigu said at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the capital, Minsk.

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