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By its nature the Church stands above clashes and trenches

01 september 2020
Zvyazda
The events of this summer have affected all aspects of life, not leaving the religious sphere on the sidelines. Churches make special and joint prayers, representatives of different confessions and priests come forward with statements, address the state authorities, visit the detained and injured during the protests, speak to the mass media. Many statements and versions appeared in th...

What irreversible consequences for the economy have the calls for strikes and stoppage of production...

20 august 2020
Belarus Segodnya
The organizers of the protests continue to spread the calls for a complete halt of industrial giants and promise financial assistance. For example, the so-called the "national strike committee" promises to give USD 100,000 for Minsk Tractor Plant, Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant and "Grodno Azot". Protesters are promised the money from the "fund to assist the strikers", which has already co...

losses of Belarus in case of the exit from the EAEU could reach a quarter of GDP

20 august 2020
BELTA
Losses of Belarus in case of the exit from the EAEU could reach a quarter of GDP. Analyst of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research Vitaly Demirov spoke about it to BELTA. "Taking into account the direct and indirect aspects of trade and economic impacts of Belarus and the EAEU, the effect of co-operation is about half of the current GDP. I would predict that the losses that...

Experts – on the achilles’ heel of digitalized elections and polls

31 july 2020
Belarus Segodnya
The advance of information technologies has made digitalization a reality that has deeply rooted in our daily lives. And electoral processes are no exception. Even IT platforms have already been announced, which will supposedly provide remote monitoring of elections and alternative counting of votes. Nikolay Sukhotsky and Svetlana Aleinikova, discuss the risks and challenges of such p...

Here’s what needs to be done to avoid devaluation of the ruble in 2021

23 july 2020
Myfin.by
In Belarus, the draft budget for 2021 assumes a dollar exchange rate at around 2,4 rubles, 103,5% of GDP and an average annual oil price of around $40 per barrel. How possible is that the dollar and other indicators will be at the anticipated level and what factors does it depend on? This is what BISR analyst Alexei Avdonin said in his comment for Myfin.by. ...

Who and why needed to turn Telegram-channels into information weapons?

21 july 2020
Belarus Segodnya
It is a pity that young people are being used by curators as food for powder through anonymous Telegram-channels, while sitting in soft chairs somewhere abroad. Criminal cases are being initiated and violators are being detained. The closer the presidential elections are, the more actively destructive messengers are calling for rioting in the streets, replicating hoaxes, spewing threa...

Lithuania urges against BelNPP commissioning and distributes iodine pills. Belarus came up with an a...

20 july 2020
CTV
Energy security of the nation, readiness to put BelNPP into operation, as well as project evaluation by the international expert community - these topics became the subject of a discussion in the TV show "In Peaceful Atmosphere".   ...

“Now we need crisis managers”: Avdonin talks about the new government

03 june 2020
Sputnik
Under the current circumstances, the most demanded people will be those who clearly understand the market and know how to negotiate with partners at various spaces and attract resources, - says economic expert Alexei Avdonin. ...

Agribusiness, petrochemicals and mechanical engineering will continue driving the belarusian economy...

28 may 2020
BELTA
This opinion was expressed to the Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA) correspondent by Alexey Avdonin, an analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR). ...

Money and peace: online summit of the EAEU and the approach of the schengen visa for €35

16 april 2020
Sputnik
The impact of COVID-19 on the services sector, the online summit of the Eurasian Economic Union and other relevant economic news were commented on for Radio Sputnik Belarus by Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research. On April 14, the leaders of the EAEU countries communicated via video conferencing. Aleksei Avdonin, an expert of the Belarusian I...

Types of fake news, population protection against distorted facts, the role of state bodies and jour...

08 april 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Digital analysts have already attributed the spread of fakes and deepfakes to the most significant cyber threats this year. According to various estimates, even today up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by artificial programs, including the spread of various rumours and fake news. At a February meeting with the heads of the leading state media, the President com...

Money and peace: rental rate and the call to all business leaders

01 april 2020
Sputnik
Today the main thing is to keep team-spirited workforce, to prioritize not making profit, but saving every workplace. This is the opinion of the guests of the program "Money and Peace" — Head of the Department of Economic Theory and Econometrics of the Belarusian State University, Candidate of Economic Sciences Yekaterina Gospodarik and expert of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic...