sanctions

Analyst: internal stability is a key factor in retaining sovereignty

02 may 2023
BELTA
Internal stability is a key factor in retaining sovereignty. This opinion was expressed to BelTA by BISR analyst Olga Lazorkina. ...

Key points of regional growth: import substitution, export, scientific potential

23 march 2023
Belarus today
Addresses for new technologies The sanctions policy against our state has sharply raised the issue of technological sovereignty. Due to the insignificant volume of the Belarusian market, limited material (financial) and human resources, it is more difficult to achieve it than for other countries. In this circumstances, direct cooperation with the Russian Federation plays an important...

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...

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 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...

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...

Expert: the world arms manufacturers profit from Ukraine conflict

24 march 2022
Belarus today
In fact, the world has started a new turn of the arms race that is profitable, first of all, for the leaders of the global military-industrial complex, international arms corporations. This turn is supported by several reasons, Andrei Chernobay, Military Analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, says: ...

Western sanctions against Belarus and Russia – good opportunity for building a new economy

18 march 2022
Belarus today
The "Pivot to Asia" as a sanctions antidote Two weeks after the events in Ukraine began, a series of restrictive measures by the collective West, led by the United States, made Russia (according to Castellum.ai database) the world "leader" in terms of the number of sanctions imposed against it (5.5 thousand). It is obvious to everyone: this is an economic confrontation on a planetary...

Increasing trade and economic ties with Asian countries is needed in the context of sanctions war de...

12 march 2022
Belarus today
The "Pivot to Asia" as a moment of truth The West’s collective reflection of the events in Ukraine draws a line under the 30-year era of Russia's search for its place in the western-centric world. But history teaches us that "everything passes. This too shall pass" (eternal words on the Solomon's ring). After some time, the shock, pain and other emotions will be settled and the time...