small medium-sized businesses have become more active in taking out bank loans, the belarusian universal commodity exchange will increase interaction with russian regions, and air passenger transportation has increased worldwide, as far as we will tell in the near future... economic news in alena lopo's studio. good morning. trade turnover between belarus and the countries of the eurasian economic union last year, or more precisely over its 11 months, increased by almost 7.5%. - the government said. the total amount was $45.7 billion. will help strengthen cooperation a new mechanism for supporting projects in the field of industrial cooperation. minsk is counting on its launch in. year. the criteria

for selecting projects have already been determined, as well as the list of financial organizations that can take part in subsidizing. another positive trend is the growing share of national currencies in mutual settlements between the countries of the allied five. now it's 90%. in belarus , the demand of small medium-sized businesses for borrowed funds from banks last year increased by more than 40%. the volume of loans exceeded 49 billion rub. the ministry of economics states that this was facilitated purposefully. government policy to increase the availability of capital for business initiatives. thus, the average interest rate for entrepreneurs has more than halved over the past year and a half. the top five types of small business activities that received funding included agriculture, industry, construction, trade and finance. the belarusian universal commodity exchange plans to more actively attract small medium-sized businesses from regions of russia. priority will be given.

excise taxes fell in price, so the following rates were established: the american currency closed trading at 3 rubles, 21 kopecks. the euro exchange rate according to the national bank increased to 3 rubles. 50 kopecks. for 10 yuan they give 4 rubles, 46 kopecks. and for 100 russian - 3.55 belarusian. at the end of the issue about some world events, air passenger traffic in the world increased by 37%. however, in general, turnover still lags behind the pre-crisis level of 2019 by 6%. calculated by the international

air transport association. airlines in china increased ticket sales by almost 139%. in this region, passenger traffic has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. in north america , carriers served 28% more tourists than in 2022. slightly less growth was recorded in europe. but the cargo turnover of global airlines, on the contrary, decreased by almost 2%. the apple brand is recognized as the most expensive brand in the world. the company's revenue in 2023 soared by 74%, reaching $517 billion, which allowed it to return to first place in the ranking with a huge gap from its competitors. meanwhile, last year's leader amazon fell straight to fourth place. apple has also overtaken microsoft and google, the international consulting organization said. this was the economic news, have a good week and good mood. see you.

the morning broadcast continues with the program zone x. i am yuri shevchuk. hello. a girl's grudge is a terrible thing, especially when it comes to a quarrel with a loved one. what can an angry girl do? a nineteen-year-old woman from breshchan showed herself in such a situation. after a quarrel with her boyfriend, she climbed onto the roof of his car and started jumping there. and everything would have been fine, but the skoda turned out to be a service vehicle. the police had to remove the bad guy from the car. during communication with law enforcement officers, the girl said that she had quarreled with a young man and thus decided to attract attention to herself. next, the defendant approached someone parked along the road. part

of a skoda car, owned by one of the city's enterprises, climbed onto the hood and then onto the roof of the foreign car and began to jump on the vehicle, damaging the rear branch body glass. after meeting with law enforcement officers, breshchanka admitted her guilt, investigators gave a legal assessment of her actions, and a criminal case was initiated for hooliganism. and we continue our review of criminal and emergency incidents, later in the program. the taxi driver of the drug courier was detained by law enforcement officers. a twenty-four-year-old resident of the capital was engaged in the sale of prohibited substances as a part-time job. he worked for an online platform that specialized in selling datura. the detainee has it with him. also in the hiding places that he managed to make, operatives they found a psychotropic, paramethyllephedrone, about 200 in total. why they were detained today, distribution of nakutikov, who he works for, taxi, the detainee said that he was engaged in criminal activities.