Chronicle of crisis
The global financial crisis will have a more serious impact on Belarus than on other countries. The crisis is knocking out the crutches ineffective “Belarusian model” has been holding on. The bottom, our economy will be falling down to, may be deeper than in other countries if the economy isn’t liberalized, famous Belarusian economist Leanid Zlotnikau said.
Topic: Chronicle of crisis
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9:48 Talks in Moscow collapsed: gas price to increase for Belarus 24
Russian monopolist Gazprom didn’t agree to preserve significant discounts for gas supplies to Belarus in 2010.
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10:44 Foreign trade negative balance is almost $6bn 6
Belarus’s negative balance of trade in goods has increased $710.2mn for October.
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15:07 Lack of money: “Vecherni Minsk” didn’t go to press first time since 1967 51
On November 24, “Vecherni Minsk” newspaper owned by the Minsk city executive committee wasn’t put on sale unexpectedly.
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10:27 Russia’s embassy: Belarus hurried to consider equal income approach to selling gas 2
Russia planned to establish equal income prices on gas supplies to domestic consumers from 2011, but hasn’t taken a final decision yet.
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11:13 Barrier for food import to Belarus 54
The decree of Alyaksandr Lukashenka increases customs duties on a range of food products and raw materials.
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14:18 The Financial Times: Behemoths in Belarus betoken state of economy 22
The influential British newspaper writes the economic slowdown may “shake the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka”.
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9:00 Sidorski asks Russia “not to dissect like a knife one organism” 27
Belarusian Prime Minister calls upon Russia to stick to agreements on mutual trade strictly.
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15:13 Investors do not trust Lukashenka’s statistics 18
Official Belarusian statistics doesn’t reflect financial state and operating results of enterprises.
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14:55 Journalists detained at Neman plant which plans strike 20
Journalists were preparing a piece about the situation at the glass plant.
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11:28 Negative balance of foreign trade exceeds $5bn
The negative balance of foreign trade grew by $314.3mn in September.
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9:12 Joining WTO as “one kolkhoz” failed 10
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus continue talks on joining the World Trade Organisation as separate states, but I close coordination with each other.
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11:24 300 thousand Belarusians work short week photo
Figures of involuntary unemployment are huge. 120,000 persons out of 300,000 working part-time working week do not receive any wages at all.
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13:40 National Bank press-service: Prakapovich’s letter to Sidorski subjective 44
The press-service of the National Bank of Belarus has commented on the letter of the bank chairman to the prime minister.
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