Okay, it’s really not Borat and Igor Poluyan isn’t from Kazakhstan. But Igor does have an impressive title that suggests he, too, could be in movies - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to the Republic of Cuba. And Igor believes cooperation between their pharma industries to be promising. They can create joint production facilities, for instance, and make White House staffers nervous.

“Cuba’s achievements in biotechnologies are quite significant and can be of major interest to Belarus,” the diplomat tells the Belarusian Telegraph Agency.

He stressed that trade and economic relations between Belarus and Cuba have real prospects. The diplomat named the growth of direct trade ties as the first steps aimed at building up bilateral cooperation. “In previous years most trade went through mediators, in particular, through Canada. At present an overwhelming number of mutual supplies are done directly,” says Igor.

Perhaps his adventure will be dubbed Commercial Learnings of Cuba for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Belarus.