Cash-strapped Belarus appeared Monday to court investment from the European Union, following a dispute that led Russia to withhold a $500 million loan installment.
In a move sure to irritate Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pledged to maintain "a long-held strategic course" of closer political and economic ties between his country and the EU.
"The European Union is new technologies, loan resources, investments," Lukashenko said after hosting Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar. Slovenia currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Russia sees courting of the West by former Soviet satellites as a threat to …
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