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Top 5 most discussed topics on regional forums

Informal regional agenda includes real estate issues, urban infrastructure, wages, health care, judiciary and local cultural events. A common feature...

Q1 economic performance in the regions

Economic activity in the Belarusian regions is reducing. Only half of the regions report gross regional product’s growth. If current trends...

Housing construction and commissioning

The state is trying to change the housing market rules. State support for the housing construction is shrinking. Simultaneously, a draft law on...

Corruption scandals and modernization failures

High corruption among the regional authorities drastically reduces the modernization programme’s effectiveness. However, the scale of the...

Belarusian Energy: expensive and inefficient

Implementation of investment projects, targeting at Belarusian energy system modernization, during the past five years managed to reduce the...

Finished products’ value at overstocked warehouses exceeded BYR30 trillion

The increase in stocks in the whole country is primarily a result of key enterprises overstocking warehouses. If competitiveness of the Belarusian...

Regions: asphalt pavement

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...

Rumours about state apparatus staff cuts

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...

Regions: flooding monitoring, rescuers work

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...

Regions: regional media review

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...

Regional overview. Average wages dynamics

Wage growth is ahead of productivity growth. Only few professionals earn the declared average wage. In general, low wages remain one of the major...

Regional overview: enterprises’ modernization

Belarusian enterprises’ modernization is one of the key public state policies. Technical re-equipment should affect all production in the...

Historical and cultural heritage preservation: regional programmes

The cultural heritage preservation policy is least effective in the regions. There are large-scale programmes, aiming at reconstructing historical...

Religious confessions in Belarus

Lukashenko’s invitation to the Pope to visit Belarus, was not preliminary coordinated with the Russian Orthodox Church, and can provoke a...

Real Estate Market

Activity in the real estate market focuses primarily on the secondary market. In the regions the real estate market in terms of new housing...

Economic and demographic situation

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...

Village Councils might be left out of Belarusian political system

Local self-governance is not functional in Belarus, at least, at the grassroots level. Acknowledging this and not planning major changes to the...

Regional Economies Report “Small, but Stable” Development

Early 2013 regional political and economic agenda was focusing on summarizing the results and approval of future plans. The only excitement was...

2013 investment plan as a means to support resource-intensive industries

Feature of the investment plans implemented in the region is that they all concern already existing, as a rule large industrial enterprises. Foreign...

Average Monthly Wages in the Regions Continue Growing

Wages in practically all regions have reached the pre-devaluation standard. However, the declared increase in wages does not lead to an increase in...

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Press Club Belarus accepted into International Association of Press Clubs Press Club Belarus was given the role of observer during the General Assembly of the International Association of Press Clubs (IACP) that... 07.06.13

Conference "Belarusian Civil Society in 2013" will take place in Warsaw on 14-15 June Invitation to the conference "Civil Society of Belarus in 2013" | June 14, 2013 The Council of Europe and the Kasimierz Pulaski Founaton... 06.06.13

To become a flexible and responsive tool to promote democracy This is the basic idea behind the European Empowerment for Democracy, officially launched in Brussels on May 27th, 2013. The European... 28.05.13

Negotiations on Belarus accession to WTO in Brussels on 17 June
belta.by 14.06.13

Obama Extends Belarus Sanctions, National Emergency
rferl.org 14.06.13

Belarus economic model is increasingly untenable, IMF experts say
naviny.by 14.06.13

Belarus must free political prisoners now: UN rights council
expatica.com 14.06.13

Belarus intends to more actively develop relations with EU, but not to detriment of Russia
naviny.by 14.06.13

Belarus sees no prospects for cooperation with UN Human Rights Council rapporteur, envoy says
naviny.by 14.06.13

Belarus : refusal to cooperate triggers renewal of the mandate by the UN Human rights Council
fidh.org 14.06.13