Lukashenka’s Economy: Have Poured Cash, And Then Think

The "laws" that regulate the Belarusian economy are the relic of the past.

If you only have one suitcase without a handle, then you can still carry it somehow, taking it in hands. But what if you have two such suitcases? The former assistant of the head of Belarus in economic issues, and now the ambassador in China, Kiryl Rudy offered to deal with the investment hunger in the domestic economy ... by placing the bets on crypto-currencies. Literally – in atomic scales, Belsat reports.

"Under conditions of the expected surplus of electricity after the launch of the nuclear power plant, large miners could give a full load to the Belarusian NPP," – Rudy said.

The idea is not new

After neighboring countries refused to buy Astravets electricity, the authorities started talking about the mandatory electrification of the domestic economy, or about a national electric car. Memes and jokes about where you can actually use the unnecessary electricity from the future nuclear power plant – to mine the bitcoins! – have gone viral on the Internet.

"The situation with electricity and nuclear power plant is a classic case that clearly demonstrates that it is very dangerous to joke in our country. After all, sometimes someone jokes, and then these jokes turn into reality," – financial analyst Vadzim Yasub says.

Consultant in the automation of large business Mikalai Maslouski adds: now the economy in the country operates on the principle of "First you poured cash into something, do something there, and then you start thinking how to sell it" – plainly, no new technologies would snap into action here. The "laws" that regulate the Belarusian economy are the relic of the past.

However, what other perspectives does a suitcase without a handle have?