Zaika: Russia can raise salaries instead of making loan to Belarus

"Russia is short of cash. As my Russian colleagues told me, $500 million would be enough to raise salaries to civil servants by six percent," he told ERB.

Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin said on October 5 that the Kremlin may approve loans to Serbia and Bulgaria. Zaika says that Moscow still has doubts about the Belarusian government's ability to pay off loans.