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The Russian government allowed the export of a number of other oil products to Ukraine under special permits. This is stated in the resolution of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers. In particular, the document expands the annex with the list of goods, which are exported to Ukraine on the basis of permits issued by the Ministry of Economic Development. Now it includes lubricants and bitumen. Since 2....

Recently, data on mortality in Belarus appeared in the UN system. It turned out that in June 2020, the number of deaths by 3753 cases exceeded last year's figures for the same month. Mortality in the first half of this year broke a five-year record. Neither the Ministry of Health nor Belstat has yet clarified what these mortality data are connected with, moreover, Belstat promised to publish data ...

July 9, Rosselkhoznadzor abolished temporary restrictions on the supply of beef, produced by some Belarusian enterprises, to Russia. July 6, the movement of beef from Belarus through Russia was resumed, reported the press service of the EEC. The decisions were taken as a result of bilateral negotiations between Belarus and Russia. "Thus, we consider eliminated the barrier related to restrictions o...

The official dollar rate increased by 14.57% (from 2.1036 to 2.41) in January-May 2020. This is the first indicator in the former Soviet Union. According to the comparative analysis of central bank quotes, conducted by BelaPAN on December 31, 2019 and May 31, 2020, the U.S. dollar rate increased by 1.62% in January (seventh place), while in January-February - by 6.44% (second), in the first quarte...

According to the latest data from the State Health Committee of China , 563 people have died from the novel coronavirus, with 28,018 cases confirmed. The death toll from the virus continues to rise. Doctors have recorded 28,018 confirmed cases of the disease, 1,153 people have been cured, 26,302 are in quarantine, 563 people have died. 282,813 people were found who had close contact with the infec...

The Belarusian economy is expected to grow very slowly even if the baseline scenario is implemented. In case of any additional external shocks, we are going into a negative growth zone, said the director of the IPM Research Center, Alexander Chubrik, at the media breakfast "Reforms for 100 billion," organized by the IPM Research Center with the financial support of the EU. The probability of a neg...

Vladimir Putin praised the Belarusian potatoes, which he received as a gift for the New Year. This was told by Alexander Lukashenko during his visit to Ozeritsky-Agro. The plot was demonstrated in the program "Contours" on ONT. Photo: Press Service of the President "I asked him in Peter "Did you even eat potatoes?" - "Come on, I haven't had such delicious potatoes in a long time. Because they are ...

The U.S. has increased economic pressure on the Venezuelan government headed by Nicolas Maduro. On Monday evening, August 5, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a decree imposing a complete economic embargo on the country. With this order, as reported by the press service of the White House, Trump froze all the assets of the Venezuelan government and related organizations located in the U.S. territ...

The U.S. State Department has officially announced the introduction of a second package of sanctions against Russia over the Skripali case. They will come into force after August 17 and will last at least one year. According to the State Department, as part of the new package of sanctions, Washington will oppose the issuance of any credit, financial or technical assistance to Russia by internation...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a decree to introduce a second package of sanctions against Russia. This was reported by Politico with reference to two U.S. officials. Restrictive measures will be introduced in connection with the use of the substance "Novichok" in British Salisbury. It is noted that the State Department and the Ministry of Finance prepared a package of sanctions in late March,...

Manufacturers of everyday goods and products in Russia reduced the size of packaging by up to 20% In addition, the number of buyers in Russia who recalculate the cost of goods per 1 liter or 1 kg has increased, research company GfK reported. "According to GfK Rus, from 2012 to 2018 FMCG producers in Russia reduced the size of their packages by 7-2......

As of the beginning of July, Russia exported over 1.36 million tons of sunflower meal in the 18/19 MY season, which has already surpassed the results of the last 4 seasons. In total, the current season exports may reach 1.4-1.5 million tons. To a large extent, this was the result of China's entry into the world market of meal, which began to buy sunflower meal from Ukraine since last season. The "...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Gordeyev suggests that the use of seized products, if they are suitable for food, should be considered for their intended purpose instead of destroying them. "I think it's wrong to destroy foodstuffs. It's another matter to seize them and think about how to use them as food for their intended purpose, making appropriate analyses. For the future, this needs to ...

Russia will start negotiations with Belarus on gas supplies after the issue of integration is resolved. This was reported to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Kozak on the sidelines of the exhibition INNOPROM, writes TASS. Earlier, the issue of a loan to Belarus was linked to the integration processes in Russia. "We are still negotiating to deepen the integration processes. After we fini...

Belarus has been exporting about $500 thousand worth of livestock since the beginning of 2019 and expects to reach $2 million by the end of the year, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Igor Brylo, as BelTA reports. Igor Brylo notes that the Belarusian cattle are in demand outside the country. The main directions - Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan - have already reached about $5......

Donald Trump instructed the head of the State Department to develop a plan to introduce additional sanctions against Russia for non-compliance with the treaty on the elimination of missiles. US President Donald Trump has instructed his ministers to prepare a plan to impose sanctions on Russia for violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The order was published on the website o...

The current crisis in the Russian dairy market is systemic. And it requires systemic solutions. Participants and market experts expressed their opinions on the state of the dairy industry and why Russia and Belarus need to jointly solve current problems. PROTECTIONISM OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation has included a policy of dairy protectionism. ...

Aleksey Bogdanov, head of the main department for foreign economic activity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, took part in the meeting via video conference. He noted the fruitfulness of the preliminary negotiations of the parties on the formation of a single dairy and food market of the allied states and stressed the closeness of the Russian-Belarusian positions i...

Belarus' debt on state loans provided by Russia amounted to $6.5 billion at the beginning of October. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to information materials for the participation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in a meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the EAEU. “As of October 2, 2......

Russia in August 2017 increased investment in US government bonds by $2.3 billion to $105.4 billion. This is evidenced by data from the US Treasury. Compared to August 2016, the portfolio of US bonds of the Russian Federation increased by $18 billion. Russia currently ranks 14th among holders of US bonds. The leaders of this list in the last 1......

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) approved the draft agreement on the labeling of goods. This message aroused concern among Belarusian entrepreneurs, because stories about disputes over the implementation of union technical regulations are memorable. The countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) already have several national systems for labeling goods. In 2......

On October 12, the Bank of Russia puts into circulation new banknotes in denominations of 200 and 2,000 rubles, the symbols for which were chosen based on the results of an all-Russian vote, the Russian Central Bank reports. One of the banknotes depicts the symbols of Sevastopol. The regulator reports that the banknotes used an improved security complex and elements with increased relief for visua...

The Rosselkhoznadzor notes the excess of the volume of supplies of tomatoes from Belarus compared to the planned one by 2.3 thousand tons. At the same time, as the department points out, the fact that Belarus itself has begun to buy more tomatoes from Turkey is alarming. According to the press service of the Russian department, this issue was discussed with the director of the Main State Inspector...

In August, JSC Russian Railways presented a project of a high-speed railway (HSR) "Eurasia", which should connect China with Western Europe through Russia and Belarus. Minsk has so far refrained from detailed comments on this matter. Either they don't see a subject for discussion yet, or they are afraid of the cost of the Belarusian section of the highway. Cost - $ 118 billion, speed - 25......

The IMF does not intend to resume negotiations with Lukashenka. The mission of the International Monetary Fund will work in Minsk from October 26 to November 10. As First Deputy Finance Minister of Belarus Maxim Yermolovich reported earlier , negotiations on a new program with the IMF have been suspended for the time being. What will the next visit of the IMF mission to Belarus give, the publicati...

Belarus accumulated almost 70% of the direct investments of Russian residents attracted to the countries of the former USSR (with the exception of the Baltic States) and ranked first in terms of their volume. Of the total amount of $499 million that was invested by Russian companies in the region in the first quarter of this year, Belarusian recipients accounted for $346 million, the Central Bank ...

This opinion was expressed by Xu Dandan, Senior Vice President of Pin DoDo, during the Russian-Chinese forum "Moscow-Beijing: trade, economic and cultural cooperation on the Silk Road." “There is indeed a very strong demand for dairy products in China, but so far we only import from Germany and other EU countries. As for Russian products, there are still very few of them on the market,” said Xu Da...

In the first half of September, the House of Representatives of the US Congress, following the Senate, voted to raise the "debt ceiling", and President Trump, by his signature, gave this decision the force of law. World markets breathed a sigh of relief - the specter of a US government default has disappeared from the horizon. But he will be back soon, in three months. What kind of horror story is...

The crisis in Russia is over! Our economy is growing! For the past month, officials have been repeating these words like a mantra. And, apparently, in order to inspire confidence in the people, they are bombarded with data on GDP. The other day, Rosstat reassured that in the first quarter of 2017, in annual terms, the Russian economy, according to preliminary estimates, grew by ......

The Russian Ministry of Energy is preparing proposals providing for more favorable conditions for oil products from Belarus, and we are talking about tariffs for both Russian Railways and ports. Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov told reporters about this on the sidelines of a press conference dedicated to the St. Petersburg Gas Forum, TASS reports. “We will create conditions for them not to ...