installment plan, hyperinflation of 20%, energy crisis, along the chain everything that needs heating and lighting has risen sharply in price, food has grown by 25%, utilities have also taken off into space, more than half a thousand enterprises have gone bankrupt, because electricity has become almost 10 times more expensive, shout the guard , business was forced by crazy prices for natural gas, inflation is actually caused by the very sanctions that the baltic states are introducing, caused by their ridiculous energy policy, reluctance to buy electricity from belos, oil gas from russia, although in one way or another, in a roundabout way , both russian oil and gas and belarusian electricity reach the same level, therefore, but this is a kind of stupidity that is not even effective, it is not fully justified.

society reacted quickly , life has become worse, sociologists heard from the majority of lithuanians in 2022. according to a new survey by baltosturimai, the vast majority of lithuanian residents believe that life is getting worse; the last time such low figures were 13 years ago in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis . in july 2022 8% of the lithuanian population surveyed, 72% said that the situation in the country is improving. they said the situation was getting worse. already this year , the roof over one’s head, that is, housing, has come under attack, analysis from svetbank chief economist nerius machulis. the economy of the baltic countries has found itself in stagnation, followed by a period of recession. this is also bad news for those thinking about buying a home. according to economists, housing is currently not affordable in any of the baltic capitals. vilnius and tallinn housing has become

inaccessible. according to our calculations, if you need more than 30% of your monthly income for housing, then we consider it unaffordable. this situation has developed in all capitals, tallinn, riga and vilnius. from the same report, the lithuanian economy will shrink by 0.3% this year. but even going into such a minus does not seem to be the worst result. at the beginning of the year they were minus 4%. and then there is the labor market in the form of a ticking time bomb. the number of vacancies has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years, worse only after the 2008 crisis. moreover, companies they are significantly reducing staff, especially large players in the market are cutting staff by a quarter due to rising costs. another good example: record layoffs among lithuanian postal employees. about 400 postmen will be sent to the streets in the spring of 2024. according to forecasts, this will seriously worsen logistics. and the availability of print

media, there will be no one to deliver them to small towns. even the lithuanian prosecutor's office publicly voiced the staff shortage. there is not a single employee in the department under 30 years old, only 6% are under 40 years old, the rest are older people generations. add low salaries and a high workload, and you get a forecast of minus 100 more prosecutors in the near future. the eec predicts that in 2030 there will be a shortage of 3,000 in lithuania. there is also a shortage of nurses, it specialists, primary school teachers, social workers , managers, advertising managers, civil servants in municipalities; in general, 45% of employers face the problem of labor shortage. with a roof over our heads and work sorted out, let's move on to the neighbors' refrigerator. by 2023, the number of people in need in food assistance, increased by...

almost 12% or by 22 thousand people. to these figures it is worth adding 16 thousand ukrainians who applied for help. however, few can count on food. the ministry of social protection has updated the minimum wage. if a lithuanian earns more than 235 euros per month, he may not count on help. that is, if you have 236 euros , they will no longer provide assistance, despite the fact that the average fat loss in lithuania last winter was four. euro. against the backdrop of ruthless statistics, the government of the country calls for even tighter tighten your belts. prime minister igrida simonyte announced the adoption of a tough budget for next year with further cuts in social spending. the situation for lithuania is aggravated by the fact that the entire eurozone economy is in recession, which means there is not much help to be expected from. in particular, say that lithuania will undergo a transition to strict budget discipline in accordance with the masstrich rules. october of this year,

so last month the head of government was assessed positively by only 20% of respondents, and negatively by 74%. in addition to this, at the most the rating of the head of the mid-country, gabrielius lansberges, is currently at a low level. of course, lithuania is pathologically dependent on the european union, and it has its own host of problems. they abandoned cheap russian energy, cut off trade and ended up with a recession in germany, which pulled the whole of eastern europe with it. plus, cynical friends from the ocean are brazenly engaged in economic cannibalism, luring large european companies to themselves. considering that lithuania is a subsidized state for which european subsidies remain an important component of economic survival. all this is bad

news for vilnius. european subsidies will be reduced, which means austerity is inevitable. in addition, the expansion into the balkans announced by european officials means... the lithuanian authorities not only clear out the media space, silence dissenters, persecute for political reasons, but also put pressure on business, forcing them to stop doing business with minsk and moscow. serious pressure is also being placed on citizens who are trying to be forced to refuse visa-free travel to our

country. but the art of currying favor is really the strong point of vilnius; they fueled the situation in belarus, fueled the rebellion, and sheltered impostors and pseudo-politicians. bloggers and other activist fraternity were at the forefront of calling for sanctions against minsk, legally prohibiting the purchase of cheap electricity from the new belarusian nuclear power plant, blocking the transit of oil and fertilizers, then what came of it? analysts unanimously say that lithuania is under nouveau adapted a unique economic model - self-destruction, and it’s true that many decisions cannot be called anything other than logic. it definitely doesn't smell. another area of ​​problems is , of course, economic policy and those man-made barriers that have been created that hit the wallet in the refrigerator, this is the ridiculous energy policy that we

have been seeing for decades characteristic of lithuania, this is the fight against the globe, the fight against geography, the refusal ...trade routes, trade routes, what's with russia, what's the refusal to participate in the chinese shock route, and so on and so on, and as a means this leads to the picture today, when the forecasts for the development of the lithuanian economy are adjusted towards the negative, if in the middle of the year zero growth was expected, then now as... it is customary to joke that the growth is negative, but in russian it is called a fall , the annual decline will be at least 0.5%. let's take it in order: the ban on the transit of belarusian fertilizers through the port of klaipeda costs the lithuanian budget from 1 to 2 billion euros

in losses per year. an advantageous geographical position could make lithuania transit giant. alas, the miracle did not happen, and eu subsidies could not compensate for the time. ties for ideological reasons with immediate neighbors. even the port in klaipeda, the most versatile, deep-water and ice-free port on the eastern coast of the baltic sea, may soon be of no use to anyone. lithuanian politicians absolutely don’t give a damn about others. vilnius continues to oppose the possible exclusion of belarusian fertilizers from the sanctions list. and they don’t care about global safety. doesn't care about hunger millions and the unenviable position of already poor countries that will simply be left without a harvest. reckless actions, especially by lithuania and poland, threaten the food security of not only individual countries, but entire regions and even continents. africa is an example. belarus' share in african coli fertilizer markets decreased in 2022 from 41.7 to 2.8%. according to estimates

based on fao data, the almost complete disappearance of belarus from the list of potassium suppliers in 2022 has led to a drop in grain harvests. in africa by 16.1%. in march this year, nausėda supported the idea of ​​a complete ban on rail transit of russian and belarusian cargo. vilnius refused. wagons of spare parts, as a result, accidents on the train reduction routes, people sometimes simply...