Lukashenko wants to trade with Russia in dollars or euros: let them pay in hard currency

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demands the government to carry on with Russian settlements for supplied Belarusian exports in hard currency.

"The goal is not to trade in rubles but in dollars, since we do not pay for energy in rubles but in dollars. This, incidentally, is a lack of government work. We were supposed to work with Russia a long time in hard currency - in dollars or euros," Alexander Lukashenko said at a meeting on economic issues in Minsk on Thursday, Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine."