We are, we’re just too polite to brag about it.
Not really. The economic model in Belarus is very different than in Russia. (Russia is a capitalist country run by a government of the center-right, Belarus still has a largely centrally planned and state-run economy, and is the closest thing to a Soviet remnant left). On foreign policy, Lukashenko officially went on record criticizing the Russian intervention in Donetsk & Lugansk.