VITEBSK, 13 June (BelTA) – Civil servants should talk to working people and appear in mass media more, Belarusian Information Minister Oleg Proleskovsky told media on 13 June after he met with workers of the Vitebsk-based company KIM. After multiple tours around the country and meetings with the public Oleg Proleskovsky believes that the people of Belarus treasure independence above all else. “The most important thing is that people understand that we have built a country. They are ready...

MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) - President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said he did not have any negotiations on Belaruskali sale. “There are rumors that the company has been sold already. I have not had any negotiations on this issue with anyone,” Alexander Lukashenko said at the government session held on 10 June to discuss Belaruskali’s development. “What is there to negotiate? The price has been announced. If you have the money, you are welcome to come over,” the President said....

MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) – A schedule of payments was signed after the 10 June meeting of representatives of the Belarusian electrical company Belenergo and the Russian company Inter RAO UES. Belarus will use the schedule to pay off the debt for Russian electricity by 5 July, Lyudmila Zenkovich, Aide to the Belarusian Energy Minister, told BelTA. An agreement has been reached that Inter RAO UES will resume electricity deliveries as from 00:00 on 13 June. Representatives of Belenergo and...

MINSK, 6 June (BelTA) – Vice Premier of Belarus Sergei Rumas and the IMF mission in Belarus are discussing matters relating to the stabilization of the Belarusian economy, BelTA has learned. “I would like to discuss how the situation in Belarus is developing, what has changed since the previous mission,” he said. Sergei Rumas told IMF representatives: “You know that on Saturday the EurAsEC Anticrisis Fund made a positive decision. I even know that you have the matrix that Belarus...

KYIV, 6 June (BelTA) – The resources allocated by the EurAsEC Anticrisis Fund are the well-timed borrowing for Belarus, Finance Minister of Belarus Andrei Kharkovets told a press conference that followed the session of the EurAsEC Anticrisis Fund Council on 4 June. In his words, the decision taken by the Council of the EurAsEC Anticrisis Fund on 4 June shows that the country’s economic development program worked out by the government includes a considerable set of measures. Privatization...

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) – A draft decree has been prepared to slow down price growth in Belarus, Belarusian Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Tur told the session of the National Council for Labor and Social Affairs on 3 June. The decree clearly outlines the notions of collusion, unfair competition, and market domination. It provides for empowering antimonopoly bodies to monitor the market and use state sanctions, said Andrei Tur. The number of commodities, prices for which will be regulated...