... time, Belarus sells mostly raw materials and semi-finished products to the European Union, while it mostly sells high added-value goods to Russia and EAEU countries – engineering, MIC and agricultural products.
Russia is the principal investor in the Belarusian economy. Rosatom is finishing construction of the first Belarus NPP in Astravets (financed through a Russian loan of over $10 billion). The Belarusian government
estimates
that it will cut purchases of Russian gas by 5.5 billion cubic meters annually....
... Organization, CIS force structures, the NATO Partnership for Peace program, the OSCE, and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, among others.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Nikolay Mezhevich:
Post-election Period in Belarus: Economy
Determines Politics
Alexei Dzermant:
It will produce a positive effect. So, the EEU’s creation has gave momentum to relations between Belarus and China, and made it possible to carry out a wide-ranging Sino-Belarusian project - The Great ...
... sphere and entirely within the economic sector. Belarus will not be shocked to learn the outcomes of the election. The country is expecting changes in its economic policy after the election.
So what are economic and political discussions all about?
Economy
Belarusian liberals
believe that the current economic structure fails to ensure sustainable growth in prosperity, development and protection from internal and external shocks. This is something not to argue about. The Belarusian economy is suffering not ...
В послевыборный период высока вероятность серьезных кризисных явлений
The optimistic
statements by top officials in Minsk do little to conceal the fact that the economy of Belarus is in dire straits. Although they are doing their best to justify the trouble with references to numerous external factors, the real cause lies in the obsolete model of development based on the dominance of state ownership and Russian resource ...
