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Makarov: we must clearly understand the ways of regional development in the new conditions

18 october 2022
BELTA
Today, the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research holds an expert seminar on the main directions of the state policy of regional development in the Republic of Belarus". The purpose of the event is to study expert opinion on the following: the main challenges of regional policy at the present stage, the financial prospects of the regions in implementing breakthrough initiatives (i...

Belarusʹ pivot to Asia – an anti-crisis strategy and a tool for national security ensurance...

17 october 2022
Belarus today
The world is on the threshold of the Golden Age of Asia The Belarusian President's speech at the Sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia has already been called powerful, it contains a number of important statements. In particular, Alexander Lukashenko stressed that the time has come for Asia, and it is very important not to miss it. ...

The BISR expert explains why Belarus should change the National Security Concept

12 october 2022
BELTA
Andrei Chernobay, Military Analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research explained in "In fact: Decisions of the First" project of the YouTube BELTA channel how challenges and threats have transformed recently and why, therefore, it is necessary to alter the national security concept. ...

Makarov: Belarus and Kazakhstan have a big economic groundwork

27 september 2022
BELTA
Belarus and Kazakhstan have a big economic groundwork, Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research Oleg Makarov told BelTA. Today, BISR is holding the round table "Kazakhstan and Belarus: the road of friendship and cooperation". ...

Winter survival. Anti-Belarusian and anti-Russian sanctions

20 september 2022
Grodno truth
While Belarus shows the growing pace of harvesting and sowing, the West shows the growing public outrage. While we are protecting our history, they are defending the Nazis and justifying fascism. While we are preserving the economy and exports under sanctions, Europe is not ready for the winter: the cost of energy resources and food cannot be called democratic, no matter how the leade...

BISR analyst on Belarusʹ accession to the SCO: this is not a panacea and not an end in itself...

16 september 2022
Belarus today
"The upcoming accession of Belarus to the SCO should be considered as the materialization of the Belarusian President's initiative "integration of integrations", which assumed the "linking" of the space from Lisbon to Vladivostok". Such opinion was expressed to sb.by reporter by BISR analyst Yuri Yarmolinsky. He noted that in the current geopolitical realities, this idea has been radi...

Record turnover and increased level of interaction: experts on Belarus-China cooperation

08 september 2022
Belarus today
Belarus and China are on the point of signing a declaration on cooperation improvement to the level of iron brotherhood, all-weather partnership. In practical terms, this means trust between our countries. The increase in the level of bilateral cooperation will affect all areas of contacts between Belarus and China. Through the prism of these relationships, all ties in various spheres...

Educated and patriotic young people are a kind of social «gold reserve» of the country and society...

07 september 2022
Grodno truth
On September 1, the President of Belarus addressed the youth of the republic in the format of an open lesson. Through communication with pupils and students, Alexander Lukashenko once again called on all of us to protect and preserve our independent Homeland, our Belarus. What previous generations managed to achieve with hard work, and sometimes at the cost of their lives, should not ...

The road to the infernal unknown is paved with good intentions

25 august 2022
Center for Statistical Estimates and Forecasts
"...The innovation of sanctions was to rely on economic total war to intimidate peoples into restraining their princes..." from the book "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" ...

The Caspian reset. Why does the Grodno region seek to increase supplies to Kazakhstan?

24 august 2022
Grodno truth
The trade volume of the two countries will reach $2 billion this year. Belarus is steadily increasing trade turnover with Kazakhstan. The bilateral trade volume of the two countries is about to increase to $2 billion this year. Enterprises of the Grodno region are also striving to increase supplies to a friendly country. ...

The economic situation in the world and its impact on Belarus

19 august 2022
The first national channel of the Belarusian radio
BISR analyst Vitaly Demirov on the worldwide economic situation and its effect on Belarus on the air of the Belarusian radio. The focus of analytics is the attention of the Belarusian President to the agro-industrial complex, the country's food security, production and import substitution, the impact of sanctions on different areas of economy and life, visa-free entry for foreigners ...

BISR analyst: exclusion of Belarus from regional logistics chains will have to wait

16 august 2022
BELTA
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko finds it necessary, even under sanctions, not to discount the EU market and work with relevant countries to promote domestic goods. The exclusion of Belarus from regional logistics chains will have to wait This opinion was expressed by Olga Lazorkina, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR), BelTA reports. ...