Nerublevy Lukashenko

The President of Belarus is publicly debated in front of a shocked people
A. Lukashenko and Russian Deputy Prime Minister A. Kudrin.

LUKASHENKO:
You bring out the leopard in me!
Are we really not friends anymore?!
You owe us half a billion!

KUDRIN:
Sorry, but you have to...

LUKASHENKO:
Yes, your prime minister and I earlier
We agreed on everything!
We asked you for a tranche,
And you answered: “We carry it!”

KUDRIN:
But that was before the flood...
Why are you hitting your chest with your heel?
You have such an abyss now -
How do you hope to return?!

LUKASHENKO:
Why are we causing panic?
Chasing an unnecessary wave?!
Why should I argue with Alexey?
When Vladimir is for me!

KUDRIN:
Our middle class is literally
extinct,
In all respects, a failure,
And Vladimir just told me,
So that I don't give you any more.

LUKASHENKO:
You're lying! Is your treasury empty?!
Yes, you rowed with a shovel!
Yes, we would recognize Abkhazia!

KUDRIN:
Well, okay, okay... But - rubles.

LUKASHENKO:
We have plenty of rubles ourselves, nah!
We agreed, nah,
What kind of Abkhazia is it - in green,
And for Ossetia - in euros!
Yes, then I’ll go to Obama,
To take NATO as a guide!

KUDRIN (shrugging his shoulders):
If you want to take it, take it in rubles,
And if you don’t want it, don’t take it.

LUKASHENKO (angry):
Indulging hostile Moscow,
We share the bitter loaf!
Get out of here, such a creature!
(Cooling down.)
Oh, to hell with you! Give me rubles.