Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in the Russian city of St Petersburg on April 3, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Russia and Belarus are traditional allies, but relations have become strained since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014, a move that Lukashenko has described as a "bad precedent".
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