Finance

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...

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. ...

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...

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...