On April 2, 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed in Moscow a treaty establishing the Community of Russia and Belarus, which envisaged the creation of a politically and economically integrated association MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Russia and Belarus annually mark the Day of Unity of the Peoples on April 2, established to commemorate the 1996 treaty on the creation of the Community of Russia and Belarus, now the Union State. History of the