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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...

Experts on the importance of supporting electric transport in Belarus

12 march 2020
Belarus Segodnya
The President signed the decree "On Stimulating the Use of Electric Vehicles". The progressiveness and timeliness of this document is to be realized and appreciated by almost everyone. Having collected all the best that has already been accumulated in the countries that moved towards an electric future a little earlier, the presidential decree created a significant foundation for this...

A new telescope measurement system launches in Belarus. It was presented by the television advertise...

06 march 2020
marketing.by
The Television Advertisement Alliance together with the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research presented MediaMetrix, a system for measuring television viewing, which contains analytical television viewing panels based on the analysis of big data from the IPTV ZALA television platform of Beltelecom, RUE. The full article is available in the Russian version of the site. ...

Competent tuesday: specialists – on ways to ensure information security in the light of development ...

03 march 2020
Belarus Segodnya
An abundance of false or inaccurate information is becoming a worldwide evil. Providers are sounding the alarm: up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by bots – artificial programs involved in the distribution of fakes. It is becoming more and more obvious that the situation requires a solution. But which one? This January, Minister of Information Aleksandr Karlyuk...

Visit of the US secretary of state to Belarus: how will the relations of the countries change?...

06 february 2020
ONT
On February 1, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, paid a visit to Minsk. Although relations between Belarus and the United States cannot be called unambiguous, our country is always set for a constructive dialogue. The guest was warmly received, and the best evidence of this is the communication between the Head of State and the first US diplomat. ...

Views of small countries must be heard in global decisions

31 january 2020
Belarus Segodnya
"The spool is small, but expensive" is a truth that is quite applicable in geopolitics. History knows many examples when small and compact states achieved significant political and socio-economic successes, both in alliance with large countries and independently. And this is an interesting phenomenon of political science, the relevance of which does not decrease even in the 21st centu...

BISR analyst: it is important to combine the societal need for change with the demand for stability...

29 january 2020
BELTA
It is important to combine the need for change existing in modern society with the demand for stability. This opinion was expressed during the regular meeting of the project Expert Community - "Constitutional Reform in Russia" at the BELTA press center by Valentin Starichyonok, an analyst of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR). ...

The position of Russian oil companies devalues the achievements in the construction of the union sta...

25 january 2020
interfax.by
The position of Russian oil companies, which refuse to supply oil to Belarus without a premium to the supply price, devalues the achievements in the construction of the Union State and the plans for deeper integration, said Anton Dudarenok, an analyst at the Belarusian State Institute for Strategic Research (BISR). ...

Know more of the new types of fakes on the internet. Attention: deep fakes!

22 january 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Do you still believe in what you see? Politicians getting drunk and swearing. Businesspersons confessing to have committed crimes, actors "gluing on" other people's faces and doing strange things. The Internet is full of videos of celebrities behaving in an unusual way. However, none of them is true. Deep fake is when a person's appearance and voice are changed in a real video using ...

Belarusian society’s interest in elections is growing - analyst

19 november 2019
BELTA
The fact that there are no non-alternative districts at the elections to the House of Representatives of the seventh convocation indicates that the Belarusian society's interest in this political event is growing. This opinion was expressed to the BELTA correspondent by Oleg Korneev, analyst of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research. ...