FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus. In more than two decades in power, the autocratic leader of Belarus has cast his nation as Moscow's closest ally, securing tens of billions of dollars in Russian subsidies. Now, the Kremlin finally seems to have lost patience with its unruly ally.(Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, file)