Belarusian People’s Congress

Belarus’ inflation at 5% by end 2020
According to the draft program, the country’s main interest rate will be a basic instrument in regulating the level of interest rates in the national economy. Their level on new loans in the national currency is projected at 17-18% by the end of 2017...

Share of SMEs projected to reach 40% in Belarus by 2020
Belarus is a country of equal opportunities. The role of the state is to create a favorable environment conducive to business in both the public and private sectors...

Belarus’ five-year plan goals: affordable housing, higher GDP and life expectancy
In achieving the abovementioned goals the country will focus on the following priorities in its development: investment, employment, export, IT penetration and the youth...

Police ready to ensure smooth 5th Belarusian People’s Congress
Belarusian Interior Minister Igor Shunevich reported to President Alexander Lukashenko...

Guests from 55 countries invited to All-Belarusian People’s Congress
In particular, the guests of honor at the forum will be second president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota, head of the Communist Parry faction in Russia’s State Duma Gennady Zyuganov,” Dmitry Mironchik said...

MP: Great expectations about the 5th Belarusian People’s Congress in the society
The congress is not some run-of-the-mill event. We are going to have a constructive discussion that will determine the country’s fate. It definitely seriously affects people’s mood. A very important and serious piece of work is ahead of us. First, we will have to objectively evaluate the resources we have, the directions and mechanisms for restoring economic and social growth. We will have to set intensive but feasible tasks”, Mikhail Myasnikovich said...

Call for private initiative incentives to develop Belarus’ regions
"Grodno Oblast delegates are going to present ideas during the Belarusian People’s Congress. These ideas are meant to bolster the effectiveness of what has been done in the previous years. There is no doubt that Grodno Oblast has praiseworthy accomplishments. In the last five years we made serious steps both in economic development and the social sphere,” Vladimir Kravtsov said...

Opinion: Belarus should boost production of knowledge-intensive, high-value added goods
Director General of the Materials Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Valery Fedosyuk, who will attend the 5th Belarusian People’s Congress said...

Human, education, science investment named as focus areas of Belarus’ new five-year plan
"Economic development is the foundation of welfare. In the present-day conditions it is necessary to keep the competitive edge of the domestic companies and the national economy through improving the quality of management of the introduction of modern innovative technologies to produce and sell products, first of all, to export markets,” said Vladislav Shchepov..

Belarusian People’s Congress viewed as direct democracy
"Virtually every constitution says that only the nation represents the source of power in the country. The Belarusian People’s Congress is a direct form of people’s democracy that enables direct communication with the nation"...