Central and Eastern Europe does not have a single, full democracy according to the 2017 Democracy Index released early in February by the Economist Intelligence Unit...
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The World Bank has released its third volume of beyond GDP wealth accounting, called The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018. The report had its genesis at the Rio Earth...
Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko first ordinance of 2018 was to abolish the so-called ‘Parasite Law’, introduced in 2015. The controversial law classified those...
A year since the President of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko signed a decree allowing visitors from 80 countries to visit the country visa-free for five days, the...
Slowly but steadily, Belarus continues to liberalise its regulations to attract more foreign investment. The country’s president, Aleksander Lukashenko, recently signed...
Whisper it, but the business environment in Belarus is blossoming, thanks in part to some business-friendly reforms, the most recent of which is cutting red tape for...
The EBRD’s latest Transition Report: Sustaining Growth, issued at the end of November, has highlighted a welcome upturn in the pace of reform in emerging economies where...
The most important oil refinery in Belarus, Naftan, is currently struggling with increasing oil prices and decreasing wages, while the whole country has been affected by...
Although many private companies are still reluctant to invest in Belarus, where 80 per cent of all industry remains in state hands, Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov has...
The strategic joint military exercise Zapad-2017 took place from September 14-20 at several training grounds in Russia and Belarus. According to official statements, the...
The Belarusian authorities are switching from control to prevention. President Aleksander Lukashenko signed a decree in October minimising the interference of oversight...
The European Union continues to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Belarus, and is set to provide 6 million euros in additional funds as part of the...