throughout history, according to local authorities , more than 10,000 residential buildings over 18,000 plots were flooded, the ural and elshanka rivers overflowed their banks. in orsk , the local dam that protected the city could not withstand the water pressure. rescuers do not stop working from flooded areas and evacuations continue. new roads, new opportunities. this year the minsk region will outgrow the next kilometers of highways. so on the m-3 highway, minsk-vitebsk, the section from logoisk to the urban village of pleschennitsy, which is 15 km, will become concrete and broadband. by the way, here, at the turn to the memorial complex , khatan is also building a two-level interchange. another object that awaits housewarming this year is the p-53 highway. here the section from smolevichy to zhodino will become high-speed. these days, builders are launching a mobile concrete plant, which previously operated successfully at various sites. and it began to complete, well

, the surfaces, prepare, carry out the improvement of the road and it will be possible to prepare the road, literally just over 2 km of cement concrete, for use, all artificial structures are almost ready, and we are talking about three overpasses of three transport interchanges, a transport tunnel for agricultural machinery and four underground pedestrian crossings. the p-53 highway is being further modernized, and its reconstruction will continue this year. on the section from the city of mechanical engineers zhodino to borisov. belarusian weightlifters continue to delight with new records at the open festival of strength sports, our villager vyacheslav kharaneko set a world achievement in the belarusian bench press. an athlete pressed a 32 kg kettlebell 120 times with one hand in 5 minutes, thus thereby doing one repetition more than the previous result. also pleased with the broken world record was viktor matsur, who pressed the apparatus. weighing 60 kg 16 times.

next is economic news, we are on the air at 9:00. see you. international traffic has increased in belarus. reserve assets, car sales in the country increased significantly. belarusians and pure sellers of foreign currencies. you are watching economic news, veronica buta is with you. good morning. belarus' gold and foreign exchange reserves grew by more than $130 million in march, helping to support stable operation of the financial system of the republic. thus, international reserve assets as of april 1, according to preliminary data , amounted to $8.353 million in equivalent. gold reserves. they are growing for the second month in

a row; this year they decreased only in january. by the end of the year, the task is to ensure that these assets do not fall below the 6 billion mark. the government and the state control committee are working on a price stabilization program, the document is almost ready and contains measures that will maintain the saturation of the domestic market with goods, develop import-substituting production and at the same time will reduce inflation expectations among the population. the program also provides for limiting price increases from manufacturers. agricultural products, including those sold under government orders. at the same time , the ministry of antimonopoly regulation and trade is ready to consider proposals from domestic manufacturers regarding adjustments to price decree number 713. the increase in scrap collection was spurred by the sale of cars in belarus; according to the results of the first quarter, 8,252 new ones were sold car. 7613 passenger cars and 639 commercial ones. compared to the first one.

heavy vehicles. we are second only to russian technology, more than 2 million of which are ahead of swedish brands, there are 217,000 of them. chinese-made trucks took fourth place. in march, belarusians remained net sellers of foreign currency. at the end of the month, they sold $109 million more than they bought. the data is provided by the national bank. the total volume of cash and non-cash foreign currency purchased by individuals in march was: 862 million,

sold 971.5 million. business entities resident in belarus acted as net buyers of foreign currency in march. thus, enterprises bought almost 240.8 million dollars more in foreign currency equivalent than they sold. now about the exchange rates that emerged as a result of trading. the yuan has risen in price, the russian ruble and the dollar have fallen in price. so, for an american dollar they ask for 3 rubles, 25 kopecks. euro at the national bank exchange rate is 3 rubles.53.