Informal regional agenda includes real estate issues, urban infrastructure, wages, health care, judiciary and local cultural events. A common feature...
Economic activity in the Belarusian regions is reducing. Only half of the regions report gross regional product’s growth. If current trends...
The state is trying to change the housing market rules. State support for the housing construction is shrinking. Simultaneously, a draft law on...
High corruption among the regional authorities drastically reduces the modernization programme’s effectiveness. However, the scale of the...
Implementation of investment projects, targeting at Belarusian energy system modernization, during the past five years managed to reduce the...
The increase in stocks in the whole country is primarily a result of key enterprises overstocking warehouses. If competitiveness of the Belarusian...
Most of the transit motorways undergo timely maintenance, but most of the local roads have overdue maintenance works. The length of roads that are in...
State apparatus staff cuts did not resonate in the society. Discussions about future layoffs take place on the sidelines and do not go beyond the...
The Emergency Ministry is prepared for spring floods. In some regions water levels are higher than the long-time average, but water logs are local...
In March-April, information policy and agenda in the regions was formed by the state-owned media. Alternative media did not take the lead. Main...
Wage growth is ahead of productivity growth. Only few professionals earn the declared average wage. In general, low wages remain one of the major...
Belarusian enterprises’ modernization is one of the key public state policies. Technical re-equipment should affect all production in the...
The cultural heritage preservation policy is least effective in the regions. There are large-scale programmes, aiming at reconstructing historical...
Lukashenko’s invitation to the Pope to visit Belarus, was not preliminary coordinated with the Russian Orthodox Church, and can provoke a...
Activity in the real estate market focuses primarily on the secondary market. In the regions the real estate market in terms of new housing...
The country’s population is relatively stable (about 9 and a half million people), but the main threat in the Belarusian regions is the loss of...
Local self-governance is not functional in Belarus, at least, at the grassroots level. Acknowledging this and not planning major changes to the...
Early 2013 regional political and economic agenda was focusing on summarizing the results and approval of future plans. The only excitement was...
Feature of the investment plans implemented in the region is that they all concern already existing, as a rule large industrial enterprises. Foreign...
Wages in practically all regions have reached the pre-devaluation standard. However, the declared increase in wages does not lead to an increase in...