Alexander Lukashenko proposed assigning some Russian cities to Belarus The president of Belarus proposed a return to Soviet practice, when the republic was responsible for the production and supply of goods to individual cities and regions of Russia. He stated this in a meeting with the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Baglob. "It's time to return to Soviet practice, when Belarus was responsible for Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, the Moscow region, and partly Moscow. The responsibility was that everything that was not available in Leningrad and the region, especially in Kaliningrad, we were obliged to produce and supply," said the Belarusian leader. According to Lukashenko, during the Soviet Union Belarus supplied products that were in short supply in Leningrad and the region, as well as in Kaliningrad.