My bad with numbers. Bad memory
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9BO06S20131225Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov told Reuters in March that Belarus and Kazakhstan received about $6 billion annually from Russia in direct and indirect support and said that could increase by $30 billion if all trade restrictions were lifted in 2015 after the union is created.
In 2012 support was 6 billion. Belarus budget was 16 billion. First chapter here
http://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/...us_ang_net.pdf
Here are some numbers about Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria for comparsion.
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...kraine/284197/
Armenia.
Russian cumulative investment in Armenia currently exceeding $3 billion, or approximately one half of total foreign investment in this country whose total annual total GDP was reported at $9.8 billion in 2012 (Interfax, Armenpress, September 3, 4).
http://www.jamestown.org/regions/rus...8#.U3zb7doaySM
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