Updated at 13:53,23-12-2024
IMF Executive Board to hold discussion on Minsk`s loan request on Monday
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) s Executive Board is scheduled to hold a discussion Monday to consider the Belarusian government’s request for a bailout loan of between $3.5 billion and $8 billion. read more 
The National Bank of Belarus raises the refinancing rate by 5% more
On Friday the governing board of the National Bank of Belarus (NBB) made a decision to raise the refinancing rate to 5 percentage points till 27% per annum from September 1, a source in banking circles has informed the agency Interfax-West. read more 
Lukashenko held off the decision on “a currency problem“
The Presidential Administration held a meeting on current issues of social-economic development, and the main question was the foreign exchange market situation. read more 
Belarus On The Brink
And it's going to get worse -- possibly a lot worse. While many of the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe initiated painful reforms in the 1990s, retooling their command economies for a globalized free market, Belarus largely stood still. read more 
Minsk has decided “to cheat“ Berlin and Moscow
The source zapraudu.info in Sberbank of Russia told the true reasons of the official Minsk's refusal of the Russian-German credit. read more 
Police blocked for an hour the center of Minsk for protesters - photo
In the evening of August 22 road police blocked for an hour the traffic in the center of Minsk to hinder the action Stop Petrol against the increase of fuel prices. read more 
Motorists will hold a “revolution on wheels“
In response to another rise in fuel prices motorists will hold in the evening of August 22 an action "Stop petrol". read more 
Expert: Belarusian regime does not know how and in which place “to bite“ the U.S.
The U.S. is disappointed by the decision to freeze the joint projects with Belarus of exporting highly enriched uranium from the Republic, remaining there since Soviet times, said the official representative of the United States Department Heidi Bronco Fulton. read more 
Experts: Belarus refused to pledge Belaruskali because it found money elsewhere?
The Belarusian authorities could find a new serious investor, the experts said, estimating the refusal of Belarus to bargain Belaruskali. In particular, they name the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, who thinks what to do with $ 40 billion. read more 
Expert: You can expect the further devaluation of national currency
Administrative setting of the official rate of Belarusian ruble will not bring anything positive to the economy, whichever they would set it, either 6 or 7 thousand. read more |
