Economy

Almost all of the gold and currency reserves can go to the repayment of external debt. However, officials hope to receive IMF loan

Belarus' GDP is expected to drop this year before picking up in 2017, according to the Global Economic Prospects report.

The Ministry of Energy is planning to reduce the import of energy.

Some markets are closed and there are many empty pavilions in shopping centres.

The euro has gone up by Br211.

The duty on crude oil and oil products exported outside the Eurasian Economic Union is lowered significantly as of January 1, 2016

Belarus will not follow Russia and leave the free trade zone with Ukraine on January 1, 2016.

The forecast is needed to denote special housing prices and privilege credits.

Russian ruble drops from 263.26 down to 259.74 against the Belarusian ruble.