{"id":20712,"date":"2026-08-30T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/putin-congratulates-lukashenko-birthday-russia-belarus-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:00:17","slug":"putin-congratulates-lukashenko-birthday-russia-belarus-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/putin-congratulates-lukashenko-birthday-russia-belarus-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Congratulates Lukashenko on Birthday, Reaffirms Cooperation With Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a congratulatory message on the birthday of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, expressed appreciation for the trust and mutual understanding between himself and his Belarusian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>According to TASS, Putin said he values the relationship he has built with Lukashenko and considers that trust part of the close ties between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that Russia and Belarus will continue their friendly relations and constructive cooperation to expand bilateral ties. According to him, this cooperation also includes strengthening mutual integration processes in the Eurasian region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Belarus have maintained close political and economic relations in recent years, and both countries also cooperate within Eurasian regional mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin congratulates Lukashenko on his birthday and says Russia and Belarus will continue close cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}