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Between the Lines:Exports could help keep us well clear of Belarus
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HISTORIAN Niall Ferguson has caused a stushie by announcing that
Scotland is "the Belarus of the west". Even for a critic of
Scotland's subsidy culture such as myself, that may be going a little
too far. For a start, Belarus has a population of ten million, is
landlocked and totally flat. Caledonia has a population of five
million, possesses half the UK's coastline plus a mountainous skyline
to die for.
Economically, Belarus has a GDP roughly 50 per cent of Scotland's
GBP 80 billion. Under President Lukashenko - an old Soviet
apparatchik - Belarus remains caught in a time warp with the ...
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