Belarus has revised its commitment to build...

Last March"s commitment by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to build one of the Olympic sites in Sochi has been widely seen as a gesture by Minsk to heal growing rifts between the two ex-Soviet states as they seek to build a common "union state".

Their relations have been soured by a series economic and political disputes, including Russian energy supplies, last year"s milk export row and Belarus" reluctance to sign a deal to set up a post-Soviet rapid reaction force.

The Vedomosti business daily said that Belorussian Triple diversified consumer services group has agreed to invest in a project to construct a 20,000-capacity biathlon complex in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. The project was initially estimated at 257 million rubles (some $8.7 million).

The company could not be immediately reached for comment.

Dmitry Kozak, Russia"s deputy premier in charge of the Sochi Olympics preparations, neither confirmed nor rejected the news of Belarus"

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