Belarus kept old factories, jobs, and social services alive after communism. Now that model is under threat from Russia, Bloomberg Businessweek writes in its recent article about Belarus

The rapprochement comes as Belarus seeks to ease its isolation in the West and balance its close ties with Russia. The US and Belarus withdrew their ambassadors in 2008.

The Chinese and UAE embassies have allocated land for a dollar. What about Russia, the United States, Ukraine and others? As it turned out, the approaches in many cases are different.