According to the National Statistical Committee, compared to December last year, food prices grew by 7%, non-food products – by 10.1%, services – 13.4%.
The swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected president is to take place no later than December, 11, Lidziya Yarmoshyna, the chair of the Belarusian Cenral Election Commission, said.
Polish journalist Maria Przełomiec says that the West is too busy with its own problems now. In her opinion, it is not interested in what is happening in Belarus.
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka voiced his attitude towards the fact that the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich had been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Is Belarus a bellwether for democracy, resistant to the forces of history, or simply stuck with the Kremlin? Belsat TV journalist Hanna Liubakova is brooding about the subject on newamerica.org.
The EU Court in Luxembourg Tuesday annulled asset freeze measures imposed in 2012 on Yury Chyzh, a Belarusian tycoon, and two of his firms, Triple and Dynamo Minsk.
Early voting at the presidential election in Belarus has started on Tuesday. Belarusian human rights activists state every time Belarusian military, students and civil servants are forced to vote early.
Belarus’ cooperation prospects with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including a possible new cooperation program, were discussed at a meeting between president Alyaksandr Lukashenka and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Saturday.
