MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus on Sunday signalled a growing rift with Russia, saying President Alexander Lukashenko did not attend a security summit in Moscow in protest against a Russian ban on dairy imports from Belarus. Ties between the former Soviet republics have been strained since 2007. Minsk is angry at rising prices for Russian gas and Moscow by Lukashenko's growing overtures to the West. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L) talks with his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in...
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