Russians Support Union with Belarus.

Angus Reid Consultants.

Many adults in the Russian Federation support forming a new partnership with a neighbouring former Soviet Republic, according to a poll by the Public Opinion Foundation. 66 per cent of respondents would in favour of a Russia-Belarus union in a referendum.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko signed a bilateral treaty in late 1999, where the two nations agreed to eventually merge their tax systems and currencies.