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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. ...

More mobile together: will Belarus be able to help Russia expand trade ties

15 august 2022
Izvestia
Despite the closure of the most important export channels to European markets, Russia and Belarus have the potential to create non-standard logistics corridors. This will facilitate promoting products to the sub-sanctioned markets. Izvestia, together with experts, figured out how the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus can help each other in overcoming logistical gaps and c...

Sold to China! How Belarus is increasing export supplies to China

20 july 2022
Grodno truth
The main component in the relations between the two countries is trade in goods. The reorientation of exports from Western and Ukrainian markets to the markets of friendly countries, first of all, Russia and China, is one of the key tasks that the government of Belarus sets for manufacturers. The Asian market is no longer a novelty for Belarusians – the People's Republic of China oc...

Why do Belarusians need Republic Day?

04 july 2022
Minsk truth
Belarusians celebrate Independence Day on July 3 in memory of the liberation of Minsk by Soviet troops from Nazi invaders. The nation commemorates this historic event. Liberation as a holiday ...

Round table in the Belarus Today Publishing House: experts on patriotic values of Belarusians...

29 june 2022
Minsk truth
What does it mean to be a patriot and a citizen? The results of the sociological research "Patriotic Values of the population of Belarus" conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences from February 28 to March 17 this year were presented yesterday at the National Press Center. Following the results, 86.6 percent of Belarusians consider themselves patriot...

Cooperation, senses, demography and education. Makarov presented trends of the Union State in the fu...

21 june 2022
Belarus today
Speaking at the meeting of the Belarusian-Russian expert track, Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, outlined the main trends of the future that should be taken into consideration in the further construction of the Union State. In his words, as we face the future, there remain the convergence of national socio-political models. Regionalization is a...

Chernobay: containment of China, as well as Russia, is a top priority in NATO's activities...

14 june 2022
Belarus today
Belarus is opposed to the aggressive policy of the North Atlantic Alliance on our western borders. Also, we now have to pay great attention to ensuring security in the southern direction – arms supplies from the United States, EU, and England are in full swing to Ukraine, thus increasing, among others, terrorist risks in the region. At the same time, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stolte...

How Western sanctions in a moment became a threat of world hunger

08 june 2022
Belarus today
The Phantom of Disaster Predictions of experts for the near future are getting darker. The world world is facing a global food crisis and hunger unseen since the WWII. And this is not one more scenario of some Hollywood horror movie, but a reality that tens of thousands of people in Africa and the Middle East have to accept. In won't be long before the problem affects ordinary Europ...

Belarusian military reinforces defense in the Ukrainian direction

06 june 2022
Belarus today
The South requires special attention Modernizing Belarusian army is a continuous process. Its course was discussed in the Ministry of Defense. There, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko declared the idea of creating a Southern Operational Command. The goal is to stop threats from a direction that we have always considered friendly, but recently...